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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 737-5H4 · Houston, TX · August 24, 1990

Date
August 24, 1990 · 12:45 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
William P Hobby Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
SWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N503SW
Reported as
Boeing 7375H4
People aboard
72
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.

Bird strike on left engine on takeoff. Returned. Landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

BIRD STRIKE ON LEFT ENGINE ON TAKEOFF. RETURNED. LANDED SAFELY.