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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727200 · New Orleans, LA · August 26, 1985

Date
August 26, 1985 · 11:40 local
Place
New Orleans, LA
Airport
Moisant International
Phase of flight
To Init Climb(1st Pwr Reduct)
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N12304
Reported as
Boeing 727200
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D15
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.

Aircraft struck a large bird on climbout. Returned for landing with hole in radome and damage to radar antenna.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT STRUCK A LARGE BIRD ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED FOR LANDING WITH HOLE IN RADOME AND DAMAGE TO RADAR ANTENNA.

Other reports on N12304 · 8

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