# Incident 19831203069879I: Boeing 737200, Dallas, TX, December 3, 1983

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 3, 1983, 23:30 local time
- Place: Dallas, TX
- Airport: Love
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Engine Run-Up
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: SWAA
- Location: 32.7831° N, 96.8067° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Dallas, TX, within about 10 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.7831&lon=-96.8067&mi=10
- Aircraft: N90SW, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N90SW-2008-04-10) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 737-2H4 (registry code 138448C, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-2h4) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Amateur-built UNKNOWN ENG (registry code 99999, https://openairdocs.org/engine/amateur-built-unknown-eng) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 737200
- Reported engine: PWA JT8*
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19831203069879I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

MAINTENANCE MAN SUCKED INTO THE INTAKE DURING ENGINE CHECK. CHANGED OPERATING PROCEDURES.

## Other reports on N90SW (1)

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

- [Incident 19891012058039I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19891012058039I), Oct 12, 1989: Boeing 737200 (N90SW), St Louis, MO. Passenger smoked a cigarette in lavatory.[privacy data omitted]

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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