Boeing 767 accident near Chicago, IL
On October 28, 2016, a Boeing 767 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Chicago, IL. 1 person was seriously injured. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- October 28, 2016
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Aircraft
- Boeing 767 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 0 fatal, 1 serious, 20 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 41.969°N, 87.918°W
- NTSB ID
- 20161028X72837
Official records · DCA17FA021
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
The NTSB's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AccidentReports.aspx. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-18/01. On October 28, 2016, about 1432 central daylight time, American Airlines flight 383, a Boeing 767-323, N345AN, had started its takeoff ground roll at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, when an uncontained engine failure in the right engine and subsequent fire occurred. The flight crew aborted the takeoff and stopped the airplane on the runway, and the flight attendants initiated an emergency evacuation. Of the 2 flight crewmembers, 7 flight attendants, and 161 passengers on board, 1 passenger received a serious injury and 1 flight attendant and 19 passengers received minor injuries during the evacuation. The airplane was substantially damaged from the fire. The airplane was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
Probable cause
The failure of the high-pressure turbine (HPT) stage 2 disk, which severed the main engine fuel feed line and breached the right main wing fuel tank, releasing fuel that resulted in a fire on the right side of the airplane during the takeoff roll. The HPT stage 2 disk failed because of low-cycle fatigue cracks that initiated from an internal subsurface manufacturing anomaly that was most likely no
From Wikipedia
American Airlines Flight 383 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois to Miami International Airport. On October 28, 2016, the Boeing 767 operating the flight suffered an uncontained engine failure on the second engine during takeoff that ignited a fire. The crew rejected the takeoff and evacuated everyone on board, with 21 occupants being injured—there were no fatalities. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair, making this accident the 17th hull loss of a Boeing 767.
The accident was caused by the rupture of a disk in the starboard engine, with one fragment piercing the fuel tank in the wing. The investigation revealed the need for more stringent directives for ultrasonic inspection of engine components.
Text from Wikipedia, “American Airlines Flight 383 (2016)”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
