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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727 · Dallas Ft Worth, TX · April 20, 1982

Date
April 20, 1982 · 07:53 local
Place
Dallas Ft Worth, TX
Airport
International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Aircraft
N818
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.

Pilot declared a low fuel emergency due to excessive radar vectoring. Vectoring caused by severe thunderstorms.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DECLARED A LOW FUEL EMERGENCY DUE TO EXCESSIVE RADAR VECTORING. VECTORING CAUSED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.