19911011049919I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Doug DC-10-40 · San Francisco, CA · October 11, 1991

Date
October 11, 1991 · 13:50 local
Place
San Francisco, CA
Airport
San Francisco International
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
NWAA
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N146US
Reported as
Doug DC1040
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT9D20
People aboard
287
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.

NR1 engine compressor stall on climb. Shut engine down. Dumped fuel. Returned. Found metal in NR1 main oil screen.

As the FAA filed it

NR1 ENGINE COMPRESSOR STALL ON CLIMB. SHUT ENGINE DOWN. DUMPED FUEL. RETURNED. FOUND METAL IN NR1 MAIN OIL SCREEN.