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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 757-251 · Las Vegas, NV · August 8, 1988

Date
August 8, 1988 · 08:40 local
Place
Las Vegas, NV
Airport
Mc Carran International
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Aircraft
N522US
Reported as
Boeing 757251
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PW2037
People aboard
117
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.

Lost oil pressure. Diverted. Found chip detector unit came loose due cross threading. APU unit also malfunctioned.

As the FAA filed it

LOST OIL PRESSURE. DIVERTED. FOUND CHIP DETECTOR UNIT CAME LOOSE DUE CROSS THREADING. APU UNIT ALSO MALFUNCTIONED.

Other reports on N522US · 1

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