# Incident 20021110032959I: Little Rock, AR, November 10, 2002

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 10, 2002, 17:38 local time
- Place: Little Rock, AR
- Airport: Adams Field
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: C2XA
- Location: 34.7465° N, 92.2896° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Little Rock, AR, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=34.7465&lon=-92.2896&mi=10
- Aircraft: UNKNOWN (not matched to a registry record)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20021110032959I

## Narrative

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

(-23) FROM ASAP REPORT ON FLIGHT 3940 ON 11/10/02. APPROACHING MEM LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THEY CLOSED AIRPORT DUE TO HIGH WINDS AND SEVERE WINDSHEAR. ALREADY DEVIATING COURSE QUITE A BIT FOR WEATHER, THE HOLD FUEL WAS BASICALLY DEPLETED WHEN WE WERE ASSIGNED TO HOLDING. ALREADY NEAR BINGO FUEL FOR THE ALTERNATE TO LIT THE CREW DEVIATE DUE TO WX AND FUEL. MEM CTR AT THAT POINT SAID TO EXPECT AT LEAST AN HOUR TO GET INTO MEM. THEY WERE VECTORED SOUTH DUE TO ANOTHER LINE OF WEATHER. PROJECTING HOW LONG THE LINE OF WX WAS, THE CREW THEN ROUGHLY ESTIMATED THEY WOULD LAND IN LIT WITH 400LBS. AT THIS POINT THEY DECLARED MIN. FUEL AND PARALLELING LINE THEY NOTICED A "GREEN" INTENSITY GAP OF 12 MILES THAT WOULD PUT THEN DIRECT TO LIT TO LAND WITH MAYBE 1000LBS FACING THE 100 KT HEADWIND CREW THEN DECLARED EMERGENCY AND SEVERE TURBULENCE FOR PRIORITY TO LIT.

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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