Narrative:

Smell of burning with no smoke during initial climbout. Asked first officer; same response. Asked flight attendants; same response. Declared emergency; leveled off; ran QRH procedures. Returned to an uneventful; non-overweight landing. Had crash fire rescue equipment trucks do a heat scan. Returned to gate and all passengers deplaned. No injuries.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A MD80 crew detected smoke during initial climbout after takeoff. An emergency was declared with a return to land.

Narrative: Smell of burning with no smoke during initial climbout. Asked First Officer; same response. Asked Flight Attendants; same response. Declared emergency; leveled off; ran QRH procedures. Returned to an uneventful; non-overweight landing. Had CFR trucks do a heat scan. Returned to gate and all passengers deplaned. No injuries.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.