United B763 near Edinburgh on Jul 12th 2016, suspected fuel issue
Last Update: November 10, 2016 / 19:51:20 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 12, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-929
Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Destination
Chicago O'Hare, United States
Aircraft Registration
N642UA
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
The remainder of the flight was cancelled.
The occurrence aircraft had to return to Edinburgh the following day again, see Incident: United B763 near Edinburgh on Jul 13th 2016, fuel issues.
On Nov 10th 2016 the AAIB released their bulletin reporting that a passenger notified the crew of a fuel leak at the right hand wing, the crew confirmed the leak was coming from the over the wing fuel filler cap. The aircraft returned for a safe landing and was towed to the apron, where passengers disembarked normally.
Maintenance replaced the fuel filler cap and no further leaks were observed over night.
The following day the aircraft departed for a ferry flight to Chicago with the same flight and cabin crew but no passengers on board, when cabin crew again detected fuel leaking from the right hand wing. Following return and landing maintenance detected a damaged O-ring in the over wing fueling port.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jul 12, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
United
Flight number
UA-929
Departure
London Heathrow, United Kingdom
Destination
Chicago O'Hare, United States
Aircraft Registration
N642UA
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
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