Incident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 20 FEB 1997 |
| Time: | 06:45 CST |
| Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 |
| Operator: | Northwest Airlines |
| Registration: | N93S |
| C/n / msn: | 47078/146 |
| First flight: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5454 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 32 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 36 |
| Airplane damage: | Minor |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | near Des Moines, IA (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, MN (MSP/KMSP), United States of America |
| Kansas City International Airport, MO (MCI/KMCI), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 219 |
Flight 219 experienced an inflight electrical fire which filled the cockpit with smoke and fumes. The crew donned their oxygen masks and turned off both generators and the battery switch. They flew with a flashlight for 1 minute and then turned the emergency power switch on after the flames had extinguished
themselves. An emergency was declared and a landing carried out at Des Moines.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cross tie relay shorted resulting in a fire in the left main electrical equipment rack." Sources:
» NTSB
Follow-up / safety actions
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Distance from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, MN to Kansas City International Airport, MO as the crow flies is 629 km (393 miles).
Distance from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, MN to Kansas City International Airport, MO as the crow flies is 629 km (393 miles).
