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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · New Orleans, LA · April 10, 1978

Date
April 10, 1978 · 21:42 local
Place
New Orleans, LA
Airport
Moissant International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EAL
Aircraft
N162EA
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
12
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.

Flight returned after loss of oil pressure. Found leak at fitting on gear case.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT RETURNED AFTER LOSS OF OIL PRESSURE. FOUND LEAK AT FITTING ON GEAR CASE.