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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727222 · Philadelphia, PA · February 22, 1990

Date
February 22, 1990 · 11:00 local
Place
Philadelphia, PA
Airport
Philadelphia International
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
USAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N766US
Reported as
Boeing 727222
People aboard
111
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.

Fuel problem on climb. Returned. A bladder ruptured and caused a fuel leak.

As the FAA filed it

FUEL PROBLEM ON CLIMB. RETURNED. A BLADDER RUPTURED AND CAUSED A FUEL LEAK.