LOUD EXTERNAL AIR NOISES AND INAPPROPRIATE EICAS MSGS ALERT CRJ FLT CREW. AFTER LNDG; NOISES ARE TRACED TO AN O2 SERVICE DOOR LEFT OPEN BY GND CREW. FLT RETURNED TO DEP ARPT FOR MAINT.
Synopsis
LOUD EXTERNAL AIR NOISES AND INAPPROPRIATE EICAS MSGS ALERT CRJ FLT CREW. AFTER LNDG; NOISES ARE TRACED TO AN O2 SERVICE DOOR LEFT OPEN BY GND CREW. FLT RETURNED TO DEP ARPT FOR MAINT.
Narrative
UPON TKOF FROM ZZZ; WE IMMEDIATELY RECEIVED AN AMBER APU FAULT AND APU LOW PRESSURE INDICATION ON THE EICAS. AT THE SAME TIME; WE NOTICED A LOUD SOUND COMING FROM THE FORWARD R SIDE OF THE ACFT. THE NOISE WAS LOUDER AND MORE PRONOUNCED THAN A GPU OR INTERCOM DOOR BEING LEFT OPEN. IT SOUNDED LIKE THE ADG HAD DEPLOYED AND WAS RUNNING. I SHUT DOWN THE APU ON THE CLBOUT. AFTER CLEANING UP THE ACFT I CHKED THE ELECTRICAL SYNOPTIC PAGE AND THE ADG WAS NOT SHOWN PWRING THE ESSENTIAL BUS. UPON THE CLBOUT WE ALSO RECEIVED THE 'STALL FAIL' AMBER MESSAGE. I MADE THE DECISION TO RETURN TO ZZZ. I DID NOT DECLARE AN EMER BUT DID HAVE THE TRUCKS STANDING BY DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE NOISE UP FRONT. THE FLT ATTENDANT; MAINT; ATC AND THE PAX WERE NOTIFIED. WE LEVELED OFF AT 4000 FT AND PROCEEDED WITH A R PATTERN BACK TO RWY. I ASSUMED CTL OF THE ACFT ON BASE AFTER ALL PARTIES WERE NOTIFIED AND WE WERE READY TO LAND. LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT; TAXIED TO GATE AND NOTIFIED ATC THAT THE EMER TRUCKS WERE NO LONGER NEEDED. I CHOSE TO DE-BOARD THE ACFT BEING WE HAD NOT RESTARTED THE APU AND THE R ENG WAS STILL RUNNING; POWERING THE ACFT. UPON INSPECTION; THE OXYGEN DOOR WAS OPEN AND NO OTHER SIGNS OF ABNORMALITY WERE OBSERVED.
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