# SDR QXEA2025021700026

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: February 15, 2025
- Submitted: February 17, 2025
- Operation: Air carrier
- Aircraft: [N643QX](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N643QX), registered now
- Make and model: Emb ERJ 170-200 LR
- Registry model: [EMB ERJ 170-200 LR](https://openairdocs.org/model/embraer-s-a-erj-170-200-lr) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 17000763
- Aircraft time: 16,203 hours, 11,021 cycles
- System (JASC): [4920 · APU Core Engine](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/4920)
- Part: Apu
- Condition: Failed
- Location: Zone 100
- Stage of operation: TX
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: B
- Precautionary procedure: O
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/QXEA2025021700026

## Discrepancy

FLIGHT 2380. DURING ENGINE START, WE HAD AN APU FAIL WITH A LOUD BANG. SPARKS WERE SEEN COMING OUT OF THE APU, SMOKE AND SPARKS WERE SEEN COMING OUT OF THE #1 ENGINE, POWER WAS TEMPORARILY LOST THRU THE PLANE. RETURNED TO THE GATE REMOVED FROM SERVICE. PERFORMED GVI OF APU AND #1 ENGINE NO DEFECTS FOUND. ATTEMPTED START OF APU, START FAILED. PERFORMED 2 STARTS OF #1 ENGINE NO DEFECTS OR SMOKE NOTED. APU PLACED ON MEL 49-00-00. RETURNED TO SERVICE.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.