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An MD11 captain reported that after landing the forward cabin and cockpit filled with smoke. The aircraft was evacuated.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 920370 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201011 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | Mixed |
| Light | Night |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | MD-11 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Captain |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 8500 Flight Crew Type 450 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor |
Narrative:
After a uneventful landing the cockpit crew smelled a strong odor of ammonia. As I slowed to taxi speed and began to turn off runway one of the jumpseaters came up to report that there was smoke in the jumpseat area. I told my international relief officer to go back and investigate. I took control of radios and told tower we have smoke in aircraft. He said he was rolling the trucks. As I taxied the smoke became much thicker and started to overtake the cockpit. I stopped straight ahead and ordered an evacuation of the aircraft out the left side and to meet at the nose of the aircraft. My international relief officer blew the slide. My first officer started to look for the evacuation checklist but I instructed him to leave the aircraft and I ran some of the checklist from memory. I set parking brake; shut down all three engines and blew the bottles to the engines. We all evacuated the aircraft and when we met at the nose of the aircraft airport rescue and fire fighting was just arriving. We had no known hazmat on aircraft. I asked everyone if they were ok from the evacuation or the fumes. Everyone said they were and we all declined medical assistance. We waited for airport rescue and fire fighting to clear the aircraft so we could then clear customs.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An MD11 Captain reported that after landing the forward cabin and cockpit filled with smoke. The aircraft was evacuated.
Narrative: After a uneventful landing the cockpit crew smelled a strong odor of ammonia. As I slowed to taxi speed and began to turn off runway one of the jumpseaters came up to report that there was smoke in the jumpseat area. I told my IRO to go back and investigate. I took control of radios and told Tower we have smoke in aircraft. He said he was rolling the trucks. As I taxied the smoke became much thicker and started to overtake the cockpit. I stopped straight ahead and ordered an evacuation of the aircraft out the left side and to meet at the nose of the aircraft. My IRO blew the slide. My First Officer started to look for the evacuation checklist but I instructed him to leave the aircraft and I ran some of the checklist from memory. I set parking brake; shut down all three engines and blew the bottles to the engines. We all evacuated the aircraft and when we met at the nose of the aircraft Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting was just arriving. We had no known hazmat on aircraft. I asked everyone if they were OK from the evacuation or the fumes. Everyone said they were and we all declined medical assistance. We waited for Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting to clear the aircraft so we could then clear customs.
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.