42.3314° N, 83.0458° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Detroit, MI, within about 7 miles.Open in the map
Date
April 3, 1978 · 10:30 local
Place
Detroit, MI
Airport
Wayne Co
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UAL
Aircraft
NR89
Reported as
Doug DC10/
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.
Pilot touched down short of threshold destroying three threshold lights.
As the FAA filed it
PILOT TOUCHED DOWN SHORT OF THRESHOLD DESTROYING THREE THRESHOLD LIGHTS.