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Airline flight crew reported a fume event during preflight resulting in passengers experiencing physiological symptoms.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1735484 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202003 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | A321 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness |
Narrative:
Aircraft had odd odor upon walking onto flight deck. Packs were off; and no gse was exhausting in to the airplane/ pack inlets... We tried each pack independently to isolate; but smell remained; a few pax boarded and immediately complained of smell and got nauseous; deplaned; called maintenance and ops; wrote it up as a fume event; local maintenance took aircraft out of service and we swapped aircraft.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Airline flight crew reported a fume event during preflight resulting in passengers experiencing physiological symptoms.
Narrative: Aircraft had odd odor upon walking onto flight deck. Packs were off; and no GSE was exhausting in to the airplane/ pack inlets... we tried each pack independently to isolate; but smell remained; a few pax boarded and immediately complained of smell and got nauseous; deplaned; called Maintenance and Ops; wrote it up as a fume event; local Maintenance took aircraft out of service and we swapped aircraft.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.