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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 737130 · Blythe, CA · March 31, 1986

Date
March 31, 1986 · 14:00 local
Place
Blythe, CA
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AWXA
Aircraft
N703AW
Reported as
Boeing 737130
People aboard
109
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
11,500 total1,800 in this make and model240 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.

Passenger was injured when head struck the side of a window after aircraft encountered turbulence.

As the FAA filed it

PASSENGER WAS INJURED WHEN HEAD STRUCK THE SIDE OF A WINDOW AFTER AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED TURBULENCE.