Incident · 1992-10-12

NTSB case DEN93IA005 · MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-82 · Part 121

What the record says

Event date: 1992-10-12
Event type: Incident
Highest injury level: No injuries
Aircraft: MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-82 (N72822)
Operating rule: Part 121
Operator: CONTINENTAL AIRLINES INC Operator named in NTSB report
Operated by (per NTSB report): CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC.

Probable cause

AN INADVERTENT ATTEMPT, BY UNKNOWN PERSONS, TO START THE APU WHICH HAD BEEN PLACARDED AS INOPERATIVE. FACTORS WERE: INADEQUATE PROCEDURES IN RENDERING THE APU INCAPABLE OF BEING STARTED WHEN INOPERATIVE.

Source: NTSB case DEN93IA005

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.

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