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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Boeing 72723 · Albany, NY · August 12, 1991

Date
August 12, 1991 · 20:07 local
Place
Albany, NY
Airport
Albany County
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
AALA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N1989
Reported as
Boeing 72723
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D7B
People aboard
59
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,929 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.

NR1 engine problem. Shut it down and returned. NR1 engine had uncontained failure at compressor section.

As the FAA filed it

NR1 ENGINE PROBLEM. SHUT IT DOWN AND RETURNED. NR1 ENGINE HAD UNCONTAINED FAILURE AT COMPRESSOR SECTION.