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| Date: | Wednesday 9 January 2002 |
| Time: | 07:50 LT |
| Type: |  Boeing 757-208 |
| Owner/operator: | Icelandair Flugfélag Islands |
| Registration: | TF-FIJ |
| MSN: | 25085/368 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1991 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Keflavík International Airport (KEF/BIKF) -
 Iceland
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Keflavík International Airport (KEF/BIKF) |
| København-Kastrup Airport (CPH/EKCH) | |
| Investigating agency: | RNF |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On the morning of Wednesday, January 9, employees of the Icelandic Ground Services (IGS) cargo department were preparing a Boeing 757 aircraft of Flugleidir hf, TF-FIJ, for departure from Keflavík to Copenhagen. Shortly before departure, two cargo handlers were sent by the cargo manager, at the request of the cargo inspector, to the rear of the aircraft to find bags that a passenger had requested, at which time loading had just been completed. Neither the aforementioned cargo handlers nor the cargo manager had been involved in loading or otherwise preparing TF-FIJ.
The loaders opened the train halfway and crawled into the train to search for the aforementioned bags. Shortly afterwards, one of the IGS loaders, who had been working on loading the plane, arrived at the plane as it was about to depart. He saw that the rear train was open, looked inside the train, turned off the lights in the train and closed it. The loaders, who had by then worked their way to the end of the train, were now locked inside the train without any lighting. They worked their way to the train door and tried to open it but could not find the handle. They could not turn on the light either, but they had a lighter with them which they used to light up while searching for the handle and instructions on how to open the train. When that search was unsuccessful, they began to panic, knowing that the plane was about to depart. They therefore began to consider possible ways to attract attention and considered the possibility of carrying the lighter to the train's fire alarm system and thus triggering a warning system in the cockpit about a fire on the train.
At about the same time, the depot manager who had sent the porters to look for the bags began to look for them. He had looked around the work area for them without finding them. Shortly before the plane was to be pushed off, the depot manager requested that the train be opened to check whether the porters were on board, and they turned out to be so.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.rnsa.is/media/1509/m-00902-aig-01-tf-fij-lokaskyrsla-send-til-adila-mals.pdf
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/22116 (Photo)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 June 2001 | TF-FIJ | Icelandair Flugfélag Islands | 0 | Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport (EKCH) |  |
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| 18 May 2012 | TF-FIJ | Icelandair Flugfélag Islands | 0 | Keflavík International Airport - KEF/BIKF | |
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| 26 February 2013 | TF-FIJ | Icelandair Flugfélag Islands | 0 | Reykjavík-Keflavík International Airport (KEF/BIKF) | |
non |
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Apr-2025 12:52 | Justanormalperson | Added |
| 18-Apr-2025 12:53 | ASN | Updated [Category, Accident report, ] |
| 18-Apr-2025 12:53 | ASN | Updated [Country, ] |
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