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Incident

FAA incident report · Doug DC-9-51 · Milwaukee, WI · August 17, 1990

Date
August 17, 1990 · 08:02 local
Place
Milwaukee, WI
Airport
General Mitchell Field
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
EALA
Aircraft
N409EA
Reported as
Doug DC951
People aboard
105
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
3,500 total325 in this make and model240 in the last 90 days

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.

Cabin pressurization failed in automatic mode. Masks failed to deploy. Returned. Used manual control of pressure.

As the FAA filed it

CABIN PRESSURIZATION FAILED IN AUTOMATIC MODE. MASKS FAILED TO DEPLOY. RETURNED. USED MANUAL CONTROL OF PRESSURE.

Other reports on N409EA · 1

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