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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-223 · Chicago, IL · July 4, 1979

Date
July 4, 1979 · 16:49 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Ohare International
Phase of flight
Initial Approach-IFR
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AAL
Aircraft
N6815
Reported as
Boeing 727223
People aboard
34
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.

Lost a system hydraulics quantity and pressure. Left main landing gear up line ruptured.

As the FAA filed it

LOST A SYSTEM HYDRAULICS QUANTITY AND PRESSURE. LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR UP LINE RUPTURED.

Other reports on N6815 · 3

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