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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Needles, CA · August 10, 1981

Date
August 10, 1981 · 20:14 local
Place
Needles, CA
Airport
Needles
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
UALA
Aircraft
N7886
Reported as
Boeing 727
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8*
People aboard
137
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.

Pilot deviated flight to second alternate due to weather.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DEVIATED FLIGHT TO SECOND ALTERNATE DUE TO WEATHER.