ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 317447
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| Date: | Saturday 21 January 2012 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker 100 |
| Owner/operator: | Avianca Brasil |
| Registration: | PR-OAF |
| MSN: | 11415 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 96 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | near Brasília, DF -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Brasília-Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport, DF (BSB/SBBR) |
| João Pessoa-Castro Pinto Airport, PB (JPA/SBJP) | |
| Investigating agency: | CENIPA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
As the aircraft was climbing and passing FL200, fire and thick smoke coming from the WINDOW HEAT2 were observed in the cockpit.
The crew donned oxygen masks and smoke-goggles right away, performed the pertinent prescribed procedures, declared emergency due to fire and smoke on board, and requested from ATC a heading for returning to SBBR.
Brasília Center cleared the aircraft to descend and return to SBBR. Meanwhile, the copilot managed to successfully extinguish the fire. The aircraft made a safe landing on the runway 29R at SBBR.
There was minor damage to the aircraft in the cockpit. Neither the crewmembers nor the passengers were injured.
Contributing factors.
- Cockpit coordination - undetermined.
The inobservance of the procedures required in the SOP regarding a sterile cockpit and the fact that they taxied the aircraft with open windows in the flight deck may have delayed the crew’s perception of the windshield heating system problem.
- Aircraft maintenance - a contributor.
The inadequate installation of the transformer terminals of the right hand side windshield heating system contributed to the degradation of the safety levels of the aircraft system until the occurrence of a short circuit, which was the source of the fire and smoke in the flight deck
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
IG-544/CENIPA/2015
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 July 2008 | PR-OAF | OceanAir | 0 | São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU/SBGR), São Paulo | |
min |
| Tire failure | ||||||
| 28 March 2014 | PR-OAF | Avianca Brasil | 0 | Brasília-Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport, DF (BSB) | |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jul-2023 06:02 | harro | Updated |
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