UNABLE TO COOL THE AIRCRAFT AFTER TAKE OFF; B767-400 RETURNS TO DEPARTURE AIRPORT. MAINTENANCE DETERMINES AN UNSECURED CARGO PALLET ROLLED AFT ON TAKE OFF AND ITS IMPACT WITH THE AFT BULKHEAD RENDERED TEMPERATURE CONTROL INOPERABLE.

Date: 2008-08 · Aircraft: B767-400 and 400 ER · Phase: climb

Anomalies: aircraft-equipment-problem-less-severe

Synopsis

UNABLE TO COOL THE AIRCRAFT AFTER TAKE OFF; B767-400 RETURNS TO DEPARTURE AIRPORT. MAINTENANCE DETERMINES AN UNSECURED CARGO PALLET ROLLED AFT ON TAKE OFF AND ITS IMPACT WITH THE AFT BULKHEAD RENDERED TEMPERATURE CONTROL INOPERABLE.

Narrative

ON INITIAL APPLICATION OF TKOF THRUST; A SLIGHT THUMP WAS FELT IN THE COCKPIT; AKIN TO RUNNING OVER A HOLE IN THE RWY. AS ALL COCKPIT INDICATIONS APPEARED NORMAL; WE CONTINUED THE TKOF. DEP THROUGH 7000 FT WAS UNEVENTFUL. PASSING ABOUT 7000 FT FOR 10000 FT; WE NOTICED A LACK OF COCKPIT AIR CONDITIONING FLOW AND WARM COCKPIT TEMP. AT 10000 FT; WE MONITORED THE AIR CONDITIONING MAINT DISPLAY PAGE. TEMPS THROUGHOUT THE ACFT WERE IN THE MID 80'S; AND THE COCKPIT TEMP WAS 93 DEGS. PRESSURIZATION AND ALL OTHER INDICATIONS APPEARED NORMAL. WE ESTABLISHED COM WITH MAINT; BUT EVEN WITH THEIR ASSISTANCE WE COULD NOT DETERMINE CAUSE. THE COCKPIT TEMP WAS NOW 95 DEGS. I DECIDED TO RETURN TO ZZZ AND NOTIFIED FLT CTL. ACFT GROSS WT WAS 385000 LBS; WITH 16000 LBS IN THE CTR TANKS. I DECIDED TO DUMP FUEL DURING RETURN. WHEN CTR TANKS WERE EMPTIED; ACFT GROSS WT WAS 368000 LBS. I DECIDED TO EXERCISE EMER AUTH AND LAND OVERWT. I DID NOT DECLARE AN EMER AFTER CONSIDERING ACFT CONFIGN; VISIBILITY; RWY CONDITIONS AND FAMILIARITY WITH THE FIELD. AFTER LNDG AND TAXI TO GATE; A LOGBOOK ENTRY FOR OVERWT LNDG WAS MADE. THE THUMP TURNED OUT TO BE CARGO PALLET CONTACTING REAR BULKHEAD OF FORWARD CARGO BIN; WHICH INTERRUPTED AIR CONDITIONING TO ACFT CABIN.

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