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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC9 · Decatur, IL · July 2, 1979

Date
July 2, 1979 · 17:14 local
Place
Decatur, IL
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
OZA
Aircraft
N982Z
Reported as
Doug DC9
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D7A
People aboard
30
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.

Engine vibration at cruise. Precautionary landing. Changed engine.

As the FAA filed it

ENGINE VIBRATION AT CRUISE. PRECAUTIONARY LANDING. CHANGED ENGINE.