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| Date: | Wednesday 18 July 2012 |
| Time: | 21:00 LT |
| Type: |  Bombardier CRJ-701ER |
| Owner/operator: | American Eagle Airlines |
| Registration: | N502AE |
| MSN: | 10018 |
| Engine model: | GE CF34 SERIES |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 57 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Peoria, Illinois -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Denver International Airport, CO (DEN/KDEN) |
| Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On July 18, 2012, about 2200 central daylight time, a Bombardier CRJ-701 airplane, N502AE, operating as American Eagle Flight 3773, diverted to the General Downing-Peoria International Airport (KPIA), Peoria, Illinois, due to weather.
While on approach to the airport, the flight crew smelled smoke in the airplane. The airplane landed without incident and the crew directed an emergency ground egress. During the ground egress, one passenger broke her ankle. A postflight review of the airplane found that the airplane was operating on a single environmental pack that failed during the final approach, resulting in ambient air entering the airplane via the ram air inlet. An assessment of the airplane did not find any on-board sources of smoke. However, smoke from a large house fire was present along the airplane's approach path and likely was the source of smoke detected by the crew.
Probable Cause: The emergency ground egress during which a passenger broke her ankle. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the environmental system, which allowed smoke from a nearby house fire to enter the airplane.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN12LA457
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 02-Jun-2023 16:50 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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