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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC8/ · Jamaica · February 16, 1980

Date
February 16, 1980 · 14:39 local
Place
Jamaica
Airport
John F. Kennedy
Phase of flight
Takeoff Ground Roll
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
FTLA
Aircraft
N867
Reported as
Doug DC8/
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.

Crew smelled odor in cockpit. Corrosives unloaded & leak found at plastic bung plug which was loose.

As the FAA filed it

CREW SMELLED ODOR IN COCKPIT. CORROSIVES UNLOADED & LEAK FOUND AT PLASTIC BUNG PLUG WHICH WAS LOOSE.