Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400 incident
Boeing 747-400 · Incident
From Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA) to VGZR · Bangladesh (DAC
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Event
- NTSB case
- ENG08WA019
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Boeing 747-400 Possible conflict
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 747
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- TF-ARS
- Operator
- Air Atlanta Icelandic
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport (OEMA), MadinahTo VGZR · Bangladesh (DAC
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Dhaka, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On March 25, 2008 at 0822 Zulu time, an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-300, registration number TF-ARS, wet leased to Saudi Arabian Airlines, experienced a fire on the No. 3 engine pylon during the landing rollout at the Dhaka International Airport. According to the notification report, on the landing rollout the tower advised the flightcrew of smoke and flames coming from the aircraft. The flightcrew taxied the aircraft clear of the runway and then received an engine fire warning in the No. 3 engine. The flight crew performed the engine fire procedures and discharged both fire bottles but the fire did not extinguish. After the 2nd bottle was discharged, the flightcrew was advised that the smoke and flames were increasing and ordered an evacuation.
The source of the fuel leak was determined to be from the coupling connection of the No. 3 fuel tank to the main fuel line that connects the tank to the pylon. When the fuel line was removed it was discovered that one of the two retaining rings was missing. Maintenance was performed on the No. 3 tank fuel line connection to replace the o-ring 6 months prior to the event.
The Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority delegated the investigation to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board of Iceland; therefore this investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Iceland. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Hus FBSR Flugvallarvegi 101 Reykjavik Iceland
Tel.: (354) 511 1666 (0800 - 1600 hrs) (354) 569 4141 (1600 - 0800 hrs) (354) 660 0336 (24 hour) E-mail: rnf@rnf.is Fax: (354) 511 1667 AFTN: BICAYAY Website: http://www.rnf.is
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Iceland
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG08WA019
- Event ID
- 20080403X00417
- Case number
- ENG08WA019
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 30a71120ed4a4e8920c7010d7518bb0ff510a7d3aadafa287f1059caa33d81c1; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:29:02.123Z.