Air India Flight 829
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Air India Flight 829 was a Boeing 747-437
which caught fire on the ground at Mumbai, India on 4 September 2009. A successful emergency evacuation was carried out with 21 minor injuries.
, registration VT-ESM, c/n 27078. The aircraft made its first flight on 2 July 1993 and was delivered to Air India on 4 August 1993, serving with Air India since that date.
at 04:30 local time
(23:00 UTC
on 3 September). The aircraft developed a fault in one of its engines and the passengers were deplaned. It took six hours before a replacement aircraft was available. At 10:50 local time (05:20 UTC),. the replacement aircraft, a Boeing 747-437 was being pushed back when a fire broke out in #1 engine (port outer). The engines fitted to the aircraft were Pratt & Whitney PW4056s
. The aircraft was carrying 16 crew and 213 passengers. An emergency evacuation via the escape slides was carried out. Twenty-one people suffered minor injuries during the evacuation. The fire was extinguished within 10 minutes by the airport fire service, with four fire appliances attending.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first wide-body ever produced...
which caught fire on the ground at Mumbai, India on 4 September 2009. A successful emergency evacuation was carried out with 21 minor injuries.
Aircraft
The Aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-437Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first wide-body ever produced...
, registration VT-ESM, c/n 27078. The aircraft made its first flight on 2 July 1993 and was delivered to Air India on 4 August 1993, serving with Air India since that date.
Accident
Air India Flight 829 was scheduled to depart to RiyadhRiyadh
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at 04:30 local time
Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments, although DST was used briefly during the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971...
(23:00 UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
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on 3 September). The aircraft developed a fault in one of its engines and the passengers were deplaned. It took six hours before a replacement aircraft was available. At 10:50 local time (05:20 UTC),. the replacement aircraft, a Boeing 747-437 was being pushed back when a fire broke out in #1 engine (port outer). The engines fitted to the aircraft were Pratt & Whitney PW4056s
Pratt & Whitney PW4000
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. The aircraft was carrying 16 crew and 213 passengers. An emergency evacuation via the escape slides was carried out. Twenty-one people suffered minor injuries during the evacuation. The fire was extinguished within 10 minutes by the airport fire service, with four fire appliances attending.
Investigation
The accident was investigated by the Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation. A report into the accident was released on 16 July 2010 and concluded that the accident was caused by Complete dislodging of No. 1 strut fuel feed line coupling due to dislodging of tie wire from the failed tie wire hole is the cause for heavy fuel leak and leaked fuel falling on hot #1 engine resulted into fire.. The report listing a number of contributory factors includes maintenance failing, failure of the ground engineer to notice fuel leak, failure of the pilots not to notice fuel leak during walk around inspection, some procedural failures involving communications and air traffic control and a lack of situational awareness and crew co-ordination. The report made seven recommendations.External links
- Photograph of VT-ESM showing fire damage around engine no.1 From Airliners.netAirliners.netAirliners.net is an aviation website founded by Johan Lundgren, Sweden, in 1997, evolving from his previous Pictures of Modern Airliners site started in 1994...
. Retrieved 2010-01-21.