19840816046779I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-35 · Omaha, NE · August 16, 1984

Date
August 16, 1984 · 09:00 local
Place
Omaha, NE
Airport
Eppley
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AERA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N149FN
Reported as
Boeing 72735
People aboard
119
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
12,000 total9,000 in this make and model100 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.

Nose gear would not retract on climbout. Returned. Found torsion link apex pin had fallen out.

As the FAA filed it

NOSE GEAR WOULD NOT RETRACT ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED. FOUND TORSION LINK APEX PIN HAD FALLEN OUT.