# SDR AALA202601021118

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: December 29, 2025
- Submitted: January 2, 2026
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N306PB](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N306PB), registered now
- Make and model: Boeing 737823
- Aircraft serial: 31257
- Aircraft time: 25,492 hours, 11,075 cycles
- System (JASC): [2120 · Air Distribution System](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/2120)
- Part: Unknown
- Condition: Odor
- Location: Cabin
- Stage of operation: CR
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: B
- Precautionary procedure: A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/AALA202601021118

## Discrepancy

AIRCRAFT IN BASE MAINTENANCE: AN EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED AND THE AIRCRAFT DIVERTED TO ELP DUE TO THE FLIGHT CREW REPORTING THAT THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WERE EXPERIENCING HEADACHES DUE TO A SMELL FROM THE AFT GALLEY. THE AIRCRAFT LANDED SAFELY AT ELP WHERE IT TAXIED TO THE GATE UNDER ITS OWN POWER. MAINTENANCE PERFORMED TASK CARD 08L00021001, PERFORMED GVI OF PACK INLETS, ENGINE INLETS AND APU INLET, INSPECTED LOWER BELLY FOR FLUID WITH NO FINDINGS, RAN LEFT AND RIGHT PACKS FULL HOT AND FULL COLD, RAN ENGINES WITH BLEEDS ON AND OFF NO SMELL THRU CABIN AND AFT GALLEY PER TASK CARD 08L00021001. MAINTENANCE DID NOT IDENTIFY A SPECIFIC PART THAT WOULD HAVE CAUSED THE REPORTED SMELL.

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