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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-14 · Houston, TX · March 17, 1987

Date
March 17, 1987 · 19:08 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Houston Intercontinental
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
CALA
Aircraft
N655TX
Reported as
Doug DC914
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D9
People aboard
74
Fatal injuries
0

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 returned due to weather radar being inoperative and bad weather ahead.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT RETURNED DUE TO WEATHER RADAR BEING INOPERATIVE AND BAD WEATHER AHEAD.

Other reports on N655TX · 1

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