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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Houston, TX · March 21, 1978

Date
March 21, 1978 · 05:34 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Intercontinental
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
PAA
Aircraft
N4744
Reported as
Boeing 727
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D1
People aboard
73
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
0 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.

Engine siezed and disintegrated in flight.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE SIEZED AND DISINTEGRATED IN FLIGHT.