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Incident · Substantial damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-200 · Chicago, IL · December 2, 1990

Date
December 2, 1990 · 07:00 local
Place
Chicago, IL
Airport
Chicago-O Hare International
Phase of flight
Other Ground Ops
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N896AA
Reported as
Boeing 727200
People aboard
63
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.

While aircraft parked at gate a catering truck hit the NR2 engine reverser.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE AIRCRAFT PARKED AT GATE A CATERING TRUCK HIT THE NR2 ENGINE REVERSER.