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Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-224 · Houston, TX · June 22, 1993

Date
June 22, 1993 · 10:23 local
Place
Houston, TX
Airport
Houston Intercontinental Airport
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
CALA
Aircraft
N93738
Reported as
Boeing 727224
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D9
People aboard
158
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.

Smoke in cockpit and cabin on climb. Returned. Landed overweight safely. Appears compressor seal had failed.

As the FAA filed it

SMOKE IN COCKPIT AND CABIN ON CLIMB. RETURNED. LANDED OVERWEIGHT SAFELY. APPEARS COMPRESSOR SEAL HAD FAILED.

Other reports on N93738 · 6

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.