19980127017169I

Incident

FAA incident report · Boeing 727-25 · Richmond, VA · January 27, 1998

Date
January 27, 1998 · 04:34 local
Place
Richmond, VA
Airport
Richmond International - Byrd Field
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
Air carrier (Part 121)
Operator
FDEA
Aircraft
N510FE
Reported as
Boeing 72725
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney JT8D7B
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
6,064 total5,131 in this make and model92 in the last 90 days

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.

Contained compressor failure at cruise possibly disk. Landed number two engine out with no further incident.

As the FAA filed it

CONTAINED COMPRESSOR FAILURE AT CRUISE POSSIBLY DISK. LANDED NUMBER TWO ENGINE OUT WITH NO FURTHER INCIDENT.