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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 707/ · Chicago, IL · September 23, 1979

Date
September 23, 1979 · 13:15 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Ohare International
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AAL
Aircraft
N440
Reported as
Boeing 707/
People aboard
168
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.

Right main would not retract due to flat leveling cylinder.

As the FAA filed it

RIGHT MAIN WOULD NOT RETRACT DUE TO FLAT LEVELING CYLINDER.