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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-31 · St Louis, MO · December 24, 1987

Date
December 24, 1987 · 12:30 local
Place
St Louis, MO
Airport
Lambert-St Louis International
Phase of flight
Climb
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
TWAA
Aircraft
N985Z
Reported as
Doug DC931
People aboard
104
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.

Unable to control cabin pressure on climbout. Returned to airport. Found a failed duct clamp at a water separator.

As the FAA filed it

UNABLE TO CONTROL CABIN PRESSURE ON CLIMBOUT. RETURNED TO AIRPORT. FOUND A FAILED DUCT CLAMP AT A WATER SEPARATOR.

Other reports on N985Z · 1

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