Expressjet CRJ2 near Huntsville on Nov 11th 2015, fuel leak

Last Update: November 12, 2015 / 15:38:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 11, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Expressjet

Flight number
AA-2762

Aircraft Registration
N903EV

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ2

An Expressjet Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N903EV performing flight AA-2762 from Chattanooga,TN to Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA) with 41 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing out of Chattanooga when the crew stopped the climb at FL240 after passenger hat noticed a fuel leak at the left hand wing. After the captain had viewed the wing the crew decided to divert to Huntsville,AL (USA) for a safe landing about 15 minutes later.

A replacement CRJ-200 registration N877AS reached Dallas with a delay of 8 hours.

The fuel leak was attributed to a problem with the fuel cap.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Nov 11, 2015

Classification
Incident

Airline
Expressjet

Flight number
AA-2762

Aircraft Registration
N903EV

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ2

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