Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | vendredi 22 septembre 2000 |
Type/Sous-type: |  Boeing 767-2B7ER |
Compagnie: | US Airways |
Immatriculation: | N654US |
Numéro de série: | 25225/375 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1991-06-05 (9 years 4 months) |
Moteurs: | 2 General Electric CF6-80C2B2 |
Equipage: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 3 |
Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
Total: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 3 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | Philadelphia, PA ( Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
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Phase de vol: | En attente (STD) |
Nature: | - |
Aéroport de départ: | - |
Aéroport de destination: | - |
Détails:The aircraft experienced an uncontained failure of the high pressure turbine stage 1 disk in the No. 1 engine during a high-power ground run for maintenance. Because of a report of an in-flight loss of oil, US Airways mechanics had replaced a seal on the No. 1 engines integral drive generator and were performing the high-power engine run to check for any oil leakage. For the maintenance check, the mechanics had taxied the airplane to a remote taxiway on the airport and had performed three runups for which no anomalies were noted. During the fourth excursion to high power, at around 93 percent N1 rpm, there was a loud explosion followed by a fire under the left wing of the airplane. The mechanics shut down the engines, discharged both fire bottles into the No. 1 engine nacelle, and evacuated the airplane. Although both fire bottles were discharged, the fire continued until it was extinguished by airport fire department personnel. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Opérations de secours
The NTSB issued 4 safety recommendations regarding maintenance and inspection of the General Electric CF6-80C2 engines high pressure
turbine stage 1 disk.
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accident date:
22-09-2000type: Boeing 767-2B7ER
registration: N654US

accident date:
22-09-2000type: Boeing 767-2B7ER
registration: N654US
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