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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 707/ · Kansas City, MO · May 30, 1979

Date
May 30, 1979 · 21:53 local
Place
Kansas City, MO
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TWA
Aircraft
N6720
Reported as
Boeing 707/
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT3C*
People aboard
72
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.

Pilot reported number four engine malfunction. Turbo compressor would not shut down.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT REPORTED NUMBER FOUR ENGINE MALFUNCTION. TURBO COMPRESSOR WOULD NOT SHUT DOWN.