What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Tail skid contacted runway on rotation.
As the FAA filed it
TAIL SKID CONTACTED RUNWAY ON ROTATION.
FAA incident report · Doug DC8/ · San Francisco, CA · April 3, 1978
- Date
- April 3, 1978 · 22:30 local
- Place
- San Francisco, CA
- Airport
- International
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff Ground Roll
- Operating rules
- Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator
- UAL
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Aircraft
- NR88
- Reported as
- Doug DC8/
- People aboard
- 100
- Fatal injuries
- 0
- Pilot’s flight hours
- 6,148 total4,411 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.