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During descent for landing a B767-200 developed a cabin dirty socks odor which was detected by both flight attendants and passengers.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1095172 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201306 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B767-200 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Descent |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Off Duty |
| Qualification | Flight Attendant Current |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor |
Narrative:
On the return flight I was deadheading because I was illegal to fly back. At about 20 minutes prior to landing I went to the back galley to have some water and all the sudden we noticed a cabin odor. We started asking some passengers if they smelled it too. And they did. It was a smell of old moldy socks but also kind of acid and sweet at the same time. We realized it was the smell that everyone talks about. We landed pretty fast and the lead flight attendant informed the captain. No one got sick or had any kind of reaction toward the odor since we landed so fast. We might not have been exposed long enough to have any kind of concerns. No passengers were sick during this incident.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: During descent for landing a B767-200 developed a cabin dirty socks odor which was detected by both flight attendants and passengers.
Narrative: On the return flight I was deadheading because I was illegal to fly back. At about 20 minutes prior to landing I went to the back galley to have some water and all the sudden we noticed a cabin odor. We started asking some passengers if they smelled it too. And they did. It was a smell of old moldy socks but also kind of acid and sweet at the same time. We realized it was the smell that everyone talks about. We landed pretty fast and the Lead Flight Attendant informed the Captain. No one got sick or had any kind of reaction toward the odor since we landed so fast. We might not have been exposed long enough to have any kind of concerns. No passengers were sick during this incident.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.