19791031056259I

Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727214 · Tijuana, Mexico · October 31, 1979

Date
October 31, 1979 · 22:18 local
Place
Tijuana, Mexico
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
PSA
Aircraft
N557PS
Reported as
Boeing 727214
People aboard
105
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,000 total9,000 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.

Passenger posed bomb threat,insisted on landing Tijuana. Delivered to U.S. Authorities. Charged with air piracy.

As the FAA filed it

PASSENGER POSED BOMB THREAT,INSISTED ON LANDING TIJUANA. DELIVERED TO U.S. AUTHORITIES. CHARGED WITH AIR PIRACY.