19790122003349I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Chicago, IL · January 22, 1979

Date
January 22, 1979 · 12:13 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Ohare
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AAL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
NR173
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
128
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 aborted due to blown right main tire.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT ABORTED DUE TO BLOWN RIGHT MAIN TIRE.