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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 737/ · San Francisco, CA · August 26, 1978

Date
August 26, 1978 · 12:35 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
WAL
Aircraft
N4521W
Reported as
Boeing 737/
People aboard
103
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
13,000 total1,800 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.

Phone call to airlines stating bomb onboard flight. Returned for search. 4 passengers hurt in evacuation

As the FAA filed it

PHONE CALL TO AIRLINES STATING BOMB ONBOARD FLIGHT. RETURNED FOR SEARCH. 4 PASSENGERS HURT IN EVACUATION