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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-223 · Nashville, TN · July 8, 1989

Date
July 8, 1989 · 10:12 local
Place
Nashville, TN
Airport
Nashville Metropolitan
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N6806
Reported as
Boeing 727223
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8*
People aboard
133
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.

NR3 engine failed on takeoff. Declared emergency. Returned. Found compressor section had failed.

As the FAA filed it

NR3 ENGINE FAILED ON TAKEOFF. DECLARED EMERGENCY. RETURNED. FOUND COMPRESSOR SECTION HAD FAILED.

Other reports on N6806 · 2

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