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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Windsor Locks, CT · May 28, 1979

Date
May 28, 1979 · 10:45 local
Place
Windsor Locks, CT
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EAL
Aircraft
N8950E
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
82
Fatal injuries
1
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.

Passenger collapsed and died. Emergency landing made.

As the FAA filed it

PASSENGER COLLAPSED AND DIED. EMERGENCY LANDING MADE.