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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-235 · Houston, TX · November 13, 1980

Date
November 13, 1980 · 09:00 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Intercontinental
Phase of flight
Final Approach-IFR
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
PAAA
Aircraft
N4730
Reported as
Boeing 727235
People aboard
57
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.

Landed safely with an unsafe gear indication. An electrical connector in the nose down lock switch failed.

As the FAA filed it

LANDED SAFELY WITH AN UNSAFE GEAR INDICATION. AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR IN THE NOSE DOWN LOCK SWITCH FAILED.

Other reports on N4730 · 1

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