19910102002359I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airbus A320-211 · Las Vegas, NV · January 2, 1991

Date
January 2, 1991 · 13:30 local
Place
Las Vegas, NV
Airport
Mc Carran International
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N311US
Reported as
Airbus A320211
People aboard
133
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,000 total700 in this make and model

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.

Captains windshield shattered at altitude. Precautionary landing at Las Vegas.

As the FAA filed it

CAPTAINS WINDSHIELD SHATTERED AT ALTITUDE. PRECAUTIONARY LANDING AT LAS VEGAS.