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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 747/ · Seattle, WA · March 3, 1978

Date
March 3, 1978 · 11:40 local
Place
Seattle, WA
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWA
Aircraft
N608
Reported as
Boeing 747/
People aboard
8
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
21,544 total750 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Crew transiented salt lake center area without realizing communications had been lost,reestablished with sea ARTCC

As the FAA filed it

CREW TRANSIENTED SALT LAKE CENTER AREA WITHOUT REALIZING COMMUNICATIONS HAD BEEN LOST,REESTABLISHED WITH SEA ARTCC