37.9748° N, 87.5558° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Evansville, IN, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
October 29, 1978 · 07:30 local
Place
Evansville, IN
Airport
Dress Regional
Phase of flight
Ops On Grnd From Ldg/Rtrcrft
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EAL
Aircraft
NR121
Reported as
Boeing 727200
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 taxied on runway closed to aircraft of his weight, then ran main wheel into the mud off a taxiway.
As the FAA filed it
PILOT TAXIED ON RUNWAY CLOSED TO AIRCRAFT OF HIS WEIGHT, THEN RAN MAIN WHEEL INTO THE MUD OFF A TAXIWAY.