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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · San Francisco, CA · September 11, 1979

Date
September 11, 1979 · 09:45 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
WAL
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2815W
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
67
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 returned to airportwhen outboard trailing edgeflaps would not retract. Carriages P/N652654511 badly bent.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT RETURNED TO AIRPORTWHEN OUTBOARD TRAILING EDGEFLAPS WOULD NOT RETRACT. CARRIAGES P/N652654511 BADLY BENT.

Other reports on N2815W · 3

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