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| Title: | Airplane exploded at gate, Aircraft Accident Report, Thai Airways International Company Limited, Boeing Company 737-400, HS-TDC (Recommended) |
| Micro summary: | This 737-400 exploded while parked at the gate. |
| Event Time: | 2001-03-03 at 1448 local |
| File Name: | 2001-03-03-TH.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Aircraft Accidents Prevention and Investigation Branch |
| Publishing Country: | Thailand |
| Report number: | Unknown |
| Pages: | 35 |
| Site of event: | Parked |
| Departure: | Bangkok International Airport (Don Muang), Bangkok, Thailand |
| Destination: | Chiang Mai International Airport, Chiang Mai, Thailand |
| Airplane Type(s): | Boeing 737-400 |
| Flight Phase: | Parked |
| Registration(s): | HS-TDC |
| Operator(s): | Thai Airways |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 5 |
| Fatalities: | 1 |
| Serious Injuries: | 3 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 1 |
| Other Injuries: | 5 |
| Executive Summary: | On March 3, 2001, about 1448 local time, Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (Thai Airways) flight 114, a Boeing 737-400, HS-TDC, was destroyed while the airplane was parked at gate 62 of the Bangkok International Airport, Thailand. The airplane was being prepared for a scheduled domestic passenger flight to Chiang Mai, Thailand, when it exploded and was subsequently destroyed by fire. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of Thailand (AAIC) notified aviation authorities in the United States of America (the State of Manufacture) who sent an Accredited Representative to participate in the investigation. The AAIC determines that the probable cause of this accident was an explosion of the CWT resulting from ignition of the flammable fuel/air mixture in the tank. The source of ignition energy for the explosion could not be determined with certainty, but the most likely source was an explosion originating at the CWT pump as a result of running the pump in the presence of metal shavings and a fuel/air mixture. |
| Learning Keywords: | Systems - Fuel |
| Systems - Fuel - Explosion | |
| Consequence - Damage - Airframe or fuselage | |
| Consequence - Hull Loss |
| Close match: | In-flight Breakup Over The Atlantic Ocean, Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Boeing 747-131, N93119, Near East Moriches, New York, July 17, 1996 |
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