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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · San Francisco, CA · April 7, 1981

Date
April 7, 1981 · 20:04 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
PSAA
Aircraft
N540PS
Reported as
Boeing 727
People aboard
103
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,218 total10,800 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 engineer was sick on taxiing for takeoff. Food poison or low blood sugar suspected.

As the FAA filed it

FLIGHT ENGINEER WAS SICK ON TAXIING FOR TAKEOFF. FOOD POISON OR LOW BLOOD SUGAR SUSPECTED.