Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Rockwell Sabreliner 65, N6GV: Nantucket Memorial Airport (KACK), Massachusetts

Firefighters extinguished a small electrical fire in a private jet at Nantucket Memorial Airport Wednesday



(Aug. 21, 2013) A small electrical fire in the bathroom of a private jet that parked on the tarmac at Nantucket Memorial Airport Wednesday afternoon was quickly extinguished by island firefighters. 

 No injuries were reported, according to fire chief Mark McDougall, who said the airport’s firefighting personnel were first on the scene and had the fire out quickly.

Smoke was spotted coming out of the aircraft, a fixed-wing multi-engine jet, around 3:30 p.m. The aircraft was parked near the airport’s fuel farm, just west of the new general aviation and administration building that is under construction.

“It looks like an interior electrical fire that started and it’s out now,” McDougall said around 4 p.m.. “They were able to take sections of the interior wall out. It looks like it started in the bathroom area of the jet.”

The plane is owned by AG Atlantic Investment Inc., which is based in Ocean City, Md., according to Federal Aviation Administration records. The plane took off from the Salisbury Regional Airport in Maryland just before 2 p.m. Wednesday, and arrived on Nantucket at 2:55 p.m.



http://registry.faa.gov/N6GV