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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Chicago, IL · September 20, 1980

Date
September 20, 1980 · 13:50 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
O'Hare International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Aircraft
N997
Reported as
Boeing 727
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.

Flight returned when gear would not retract. Found ruptured hydraulic line.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT RETURNED WHEN GEAR WOULD NOT RETRACT. FOUND RUPTURED HYDRAULIC LINE.