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Aviation incident ENG13IA016

NONE · BOEING 747 · 2013-02-25 · Dallas, TX, USA

Event

NTSB number
ENG13IA016
Event ID
20130227X80547
Type
Incident
Date
2013-02-25
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Coordinates
32.901943, -97.041946

Injuries

Highest injury
NONE
Fatal
0
Serious
0
Minor
0
Uninjured
3
Total aboard
3

Aircraft

Make
BOEING
Model
747
Registration
B18701
FAR Part
129
Engines
4
Damage
MINR

Conditions

Light
NR
Weather
Unk

Probable cause

Fuel leaking from a fractured fuel manifold feeder line that ignited on contact with the engine’s hot compressor rear frame, which resulted in an engine undercowl fire. The fuel manifold feeder line failed due to high amplitude fatigue because the fuel manifold resonance frequencies were within the engine operation range. Contributing to the incident was that the engine was overhauled about the same time as the most current fuel manifold configuration that addressed the high amplitude fatigue failure mode was introduced, thus it was not installed on the engine.

Source

Authoritative
NTSB CAROL
Machine
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