# Incident 19980605041669I: Boeing 757236, Mcalester, OK, June 5, 1998

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 5, 1998, 17:38 local time
- Place: Mcalester, OK
- Airport: Mcalester Regionall Airport
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Foreign air carrier (Part 129)
- Operator: CMDF
- Location: 34.9261° N, 95.7736° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of McAlester, OK, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.9261&lon=-95.7736&mi=10
- Aircraft: XATJC (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 757236
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19980605041669I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-5)MXA 816 REPORTED PRESSURIZATION DIFFICULTIES TO ZFW ATRCC, DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND COMMENSING AN EMERGENCY DESCENT, AND REQUESTED IMMEDIATE VECTOR AWAY FROM TRAFFIC.  SEPARATION WAS LOST WITH A DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT (1,500 VERTICAL; 4.5 MILES HORIZONTALLY).  MXA 816 WAS THEN CLEARED TO FL 290.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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