Boeing 737-300 crash, Jun 16, 2015, Aktau
Boeing 737-300 accident on June 16, 2015 near Aktau, Mangystau, Kazakhstan with no fatalities. Cause: Kazakh investigation (2019 report, as covered by...
- Date: June 16, 2015
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-300
- Location: Aktau, Mangystau, Kazakhstan
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Parked
- Cause: Kazakh investigation (2019 report, as covered by Airsoc and The Aviation Herald): fire in the forward cargo bay after an oxygen hose ruptured while the system was charged from a ground source, with the compressed oxygen self igniting in dust filled air flow near the oxygen bottles.
On 16 June 2015 a SCAT Airlines Boeing 737 (LY FLB) that had flown in from Astana as flight DV742 was parked at Aktau while its passengers had disembarked and maintenance refilled the oxygen system. A hose ruptured and the compressed oxygen ignited in the forward cargo bay, and the fire spread into the fuselage and partly destroyed it before airport fire crews extinguished it. No one was injured, and the Kazakh investigation attributed the fire to the hose rupture during ground refilling combined with oxygen self ignition in dust.