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The Fire Next Time

Steve Scott

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

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Lessons From A Boeing 777 Main Electrical Load Center Fire On Feb 26, at 1,000 hrs local, a United Airlines 777-222 N768UA pushed back with its APU running and started engines at London's Heathrow Airport. After both engines were started, and at about the time the engine driven Integrated Drive Generators (IDGs) would have normally come on-line, the flight deck instrument displays flickered, the crew heard an abnormal noise, and an EICAS message, among other related messages, indicated that the…

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