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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 707/ · Chicago, IL · May 11, 1978

Date
May 11, 1978 · 09:15 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
O'Hare
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2775
Reported as
Boeing 707/
People aboard
145
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.

Windshield arced in flight due to a faulty transformer.

As the FAA filed it

WINDSHIELD ARCED IN FLIGHT DUE TO A FAULTY TRANSFORMER.