Date: | Sunday 10 August 1986 |
Time: | 07:15 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 |
Owner/operator: | American Trans Air |
Registration: | N184AT |
MSN: | 46751/36 |
Year of manufacture: | 1973 |
Total airframe hrs: | 29155 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT9D-20 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | OT |
Location: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX) |
Destination airport: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The DC-10 was unloaded following a charter flight. Company maintenance personnel had placed damaged passenger seatbacks (incorporating solid-state chemical oxygen generators) in the forward cargo hold with seat covers and oil. A company mechanic examined the seatbacks to find a serviceable unit. He encountered a loose oxygen generator, which he handled improperly by its oxygen hose. The generator went off by accident, generating a 430deg C heat. Seat covers ignited and the fire eventually burned through the cabin floor. The cabin was soon engulfed in flames.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "
Oxygen system .. information insufficient .. company maintenance personnel
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
Supervision .. improper .. company/operator management
Lack of familiarity with aircraft .. company/operator management
Tie down .. improper .. company/operator management
Oxygen system .. not understood .. company maintenance personnel
Lack of familiarity with aircraft .. company maintenance personnel"
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | NTSB/AAR-87-03-SUM |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Aviation Letter 238
ICAO Adrep Summary 5/88 (#52)
NTSB/AAR-87/03/SUM
Location
Images:
photo (c) Ryan Hales; Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Frankfurt International Airport (FRA); July 1984
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