Author Topic: US Airways 357, smoke event in aft lavatory  (Read 14098 times)

Offline Eric M

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US Airways 357, smoke event in aft lavatory
« on: April 17, 2013, 03:04:19 PM »
This morning, a PSA CRJ2 from Albany, NY to Washington National had a smoke incident in the rear lavatory. Here's what Simon wrote at avherald.com:

"A PSA Airlines Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of US Airways, registration N218PS performing flight US-2357 from Albany,NY to Washington National,DC (USA), was enroute at FL280 about 75nm northeast of Philadelphia,PA (USA) when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and decided to divert to Philadelphia. The airport prepared for a major alert and for the closure of all runways as result of the alert status. On final approach the crew, audibly on oxygen masks, advised they had an aft lavatory fire indication, there was smoke in the cabin, there was no smoke in the cockpit, they were planning to evacuate after landing. The aircraft landed safely on Philadelphia's runway 27L about 20 minutes later and stopped on the runway and was evacuated, all runways were closed for about 30 minutes until emergency services started to return runways one by one back to tower.

While all runways were still closed another flight declared fuel emergency and proceeded to land while the airport was still closed, about 2 minutes later emergency services returned runway 27R to tower permitting the fuel emergency to land on that runway."

I captured a lot of audio, but missed one handoff from ZNY to another center sector. I caught up with the story again on initial approach to KPHL. I also left in certain other communications relevant to the emergency.

The avherald.com link: http://avherald.com/h?article=460e76eb&opt=0
Flightaware: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JIA2357/history/20130417/1155Z/KALB/KPHL
« Last Edit: April 17, 2013, 03:24:55 PM by Eric M »



Offline mk223

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Re: US Airways 357, smoke event in aft lavatory
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2013, 11:54:05 PM »
Great capture and lots of interesting audio.

Offline MugRootbeerdude#7

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Re: US Airways 357, smoke event in aft lavatory
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2013, 10:34:49 AM »
the jet that landed on 27R was that a Brickyard and was it's call sign 10?

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Re: US Airways 357, smoke event in aft lavatory
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2013, 04:59:41 PM »
I'm not entirely sure... from the full audio, it wasn't clear to me which aircraft had the fuel emergency, but by that point I was listening to Tower and not Approach which is probably where the emergency declaration was made.