19790105000469I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC10/ · Chicago, IL · January 5, 1979

Date
January 5, 1979 · 08:10 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Starting Engines
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UAL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3415
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.

During engine start with inoperative APU, jet blast blew in a window of the terminal walkway

As the FAA filed it

DURING ENGINE START WITH INOPERATIVE APU, JET BLAST BLEW IN A WINDOW OF THE TERMINAL WALKWAY