19790430200699I

Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Houston, TX · April 30, 1979

Date
April 30, 1979 · 12:52 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
International
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AAL
Aircraft
N824
Reported as
Boeing 727
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8*
People aboard
103
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.

On climbout, #2 engine fire warning activated. A faulty connector was replaced.

As the FAA filed it

ON CLIMBOUT, #2 ENGINE FIRE WARNING ACTIVATED. A FAULTY CONNECTOR WAS REPLACED.