# Incident 20000710025209I: Boeing 7372H4, Amarillo, TX, July 10, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 10, 2000, 11:03 local time
- Place: Amarillo, TX
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: SWAA
- Location: 35.2220° N, 101.8313° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Amarillo, TX, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=35.2220&lon=-101.8313&mi=10
- Aircraft: N62SW, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N62SW-2002-12-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 737-2H4 (registry code 138448C, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-737-2h4) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 series (registry code 52048, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-jt8d-9-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 7372H4
- Pilot flight hours: 7,500 total, 5,400 in this make and model, 232 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000710025209I

## Narrative

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

(-23)PLT. 2064 ENROUTE TUL-PHX AT OPTIMUM FL 310 WITH FL 350 AVAILABLE NEAR ABQ. APROX. 325 NM EAST OF ABQ, AYC CLEARED TO FL350.  UPON REACHING FL 330, CLIMB DIMINISHED TO 500FPM WITH AS 250K.  SLOWED TO 220K ATTEMPTING TO MAINTAIN CLIMB.  AIRCRAFT LEVELED AT FL 348 AND CONTINUED TO LOSE SPEED.  REQUESTED DESCENT TO FL 310, ATC ADVISED UNAVAILABLE.  AICRAFT BEGAN DESCENT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED AND DECLARED EMERGENCY.  CONFLICTING TRAFFIC WAS GIVEN DESCENT AND VECTORS TO CLEAR AIRSPACE FOR FLT. 2064.  FLT, ASSIGNED FL 310 AND CONTINUED TO PHX.  ONBOARD PERFORMANCE COMPUTER (OPC) INDICATED FL 350 WAS AVAILABLE AT THEIR WEIGHT, HOWEVER OAT WAS 20C WARMER THAN  ANTICIPATED AT 350.  OAT AT FL310 WAS APPARENTLY NOT USED TO UPDATE OPC THUS GIVING INVALID DATA FOR MAXIMUM AVAILABLE FL.  COUNSELING AND CREW RETRAINING HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.  CHSO LOOKING INTO DISPATCH PROCEDURES AND USE OF OPC.  A CLIMB TO 350 HAS INITIATED 325 NM PRIOR IN FLIGHT SHOWN TO BE OPTIMUM ALTITUDE FOR CRUISE.  RELATED REPORT (ZAB-016)

## Other reports on N62SW (1)

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

- [Incident 19990515015719I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19990515015719I), May 15, 1999: Boeing 7372H4 (N62SW), Albuquerque, NM. On may 15, 1999, at approximately 0700 am, swaa flight 1163 taxied for departure. A low pressure oil light illuminated and the aircraft returned to the gate.…

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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