Icelandair Boeing 757 incident
Boeing 757 · Incident
From Keflavik International Airport (KEF) to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP)
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Event
- NTSB case
- WPR09RA402
- 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 757
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 757
- 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 FIA Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Icelandair
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Keflavik International Airport (KEF), KeflavíkTo Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP), Minneapolis, MN
- 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
- Part 129: Foreign
- 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 Keflavík, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On June 15, 2009, a Boeing 757-200, TF-FIA, experienced heat and smoke emanating from the in-flight entertainment system audio jacks, located in two passenger armrests. The incident occurred prior to takeoff from Keflavík International Airport, Reykjanesbaer, Iceland. After the smoke was observed, power to the entertainment system in the affected seats was shut down, and the flight continued without further incident to Minneapolis-St Paul International, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Iceland. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by the Government of Iceland. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Aircraft Accident Investigation Board - Iceland Hus FBSR Flugvallarvegi 101 Reykjavik Iceland Office +354 511 1666 (0800 - 1600 hrs) +354 569 4141 (1600 - 0800 hrs) +354 660 0336 (24 hours) Fax +354 511 1667 GSM +354 660 0333 E-mail: rnf@rnf.is
Website: http://www.rnf.is
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR09RA402
- Event ID
- 20090818X32949
- Case number
- WPR09RA402
- 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: e885a97cf4273b817527162a61c08fecf89c1e137873d2af571312a05a495b31; retrieved 2026-09-15T12:48:46.124Z.