B737-400
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Smoke / Fire / Fumes / Odor
Flight Crew Returned To Gate
Aircraft; Procedure; Logbook Entry
We had pushed back to the deicing pad; deiced and started the right engine without issue. The Captain was starting the left engine when the EGT indicator started to flash although all other engine indications appeared normal. The de-ice crew called us on radio. I initially told him to standby; then told him to go ahead. He informed us that we had flames coming out of the left engine; whereupon the Captain shut down Number One Engine. We estimate the EGT rose to 830C.Afterwards we noted three previous write-ups for aborted engine starts on the Number One Engine similar to ours in the recent history on the aircraft.
A B737-400 flight crew aborted their left engine start when its EGT warning light began flashing and the ground crew advised flame was coming out of the engine. This was the fourth similar event in the logbooks recent history.