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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Houston, TX · March 21, 1979

Date: March 21, 1979 · 09:49 local
Place: Houston, TX
Airport: Intercontinental
Phase of flight: Climb
Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator: CAL
Aircraft: N40481
Reported as: Boeing 727
Reported engine: Pratt & Whitney JT8*
People aboard: 85
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 0 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

N40481Registration cancelled Oct 22, 1996 · Boeing 727-22S/N 18329 Airframe modelBoeing 727-22

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.

Leading edge slat would not retract in climb. Found bad actuator

As the FAA filed it

LEADING EDGE SLAT WOULD NOT RETRACT IN CLIMB. FOUND BAD ACTUATOR

Other reports on N40481 · 1

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

Incident 19840725041809IGround Taxi, Other Airplane · Phoenix, AZAPU had an auto shutdown. Smoke coming from APU exhaust area. APU had an internal failure. Cause undetermined.Jul 25, 1984 · Reported as Boeing 727100 · Minor damage