American Airlines Boeing 767-323 incident
Boeing 767-323 · Incident
From Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG) to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (KDFW)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA052
- 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
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- 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 767-323
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 767
- 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
- N380AN
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG), ParisTo Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (KDFW), Dallas, TX
- 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 121: Air Carrier
- 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
- None
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 April 13, 2010, at 1:05pm local time, a Boeing 767, US registration N380AN, operated by American Airlines as a scheduled flight from Paris to DFW, diverted to Keflavik, Iceland, following reports of fumes in the cabin and cabin reports of illness. The flight landed safely. 5 cabin crewmembers experienced severe vertigo.
This incident is being investigated by the AAIB-Iceland. The NTSB designated a U.S. Accredited Representative to the AAIB-Iceland's investigation under the provisions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 as the state of the operator and manufacture of the airplane.
All inquiries should be directed to:
Aircraft Accident Investigation Board Hus FBSR Flugvallarvegi 101 Reykjavik Iceland
Website: http://www.rnf.is
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA10WA052
- Event ID
- 20100414X04022
- Case number
- DCA10WA052
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 4db4577f302139ff82bf09311738fa7d0869b7e079abe3b6b6701ee12212f603; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:51:39.442Z.