# Incident 20030302007489I: Boeing 727224, State College, PA, March 2, 2003

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: March 2, 2003, 09:40 local time
- Place: State College, PA
- Airport: University Park
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Final Approach
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: FX7A
- Location: 40.7910° N, 77.8568° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of State College, PA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.7910&lon=-77.8568&mi=10
- Aircraft: N296SC, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N296SC-2007-09-20) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Boeing 727-224 (registry code 1384076, https://openairdocs.org/model/boeing-727-224) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 727224
- People aboard: 6
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 9,236 total, 9,131 in this make and model, 105 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20030302007489I

## Narrative

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

(-23) ON MARCH 2, 2003, AT 0940 LOCAL TIME FALCON AIR EXPRESS FLIGHT FA09982, CONTACTED AND DAMAGED THE APPROACH LIGHTS DURING AN ILS APPROACH TO RUNWAY 24 AT (UNV). THE MALSR LIGHTS AT 200 AND 400 FEET FROM THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD BROKE OFF AT GROUND LEVEL. A FLIGHT INSPECTION OF THE RUNWAY 24 ILS INDICATED THAT THE ILS WAS OPERATING PROPERLY. A FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY THE MIAMI FSDO REVEALED POOR FLIGHT CREW COORDINATION DURING THE APPROACH AND IMPROPER CONDUCT OF THE INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ SUBMISSION OF THIS REPORT CLOSES THIS INCIDENT.

## Other reports on N296SC (1)

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

- [Accident 20000910007999A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000910007999A), Sep 10, 2000: Boeing 727224 (N296SC), Minneapolis, MN, No damage. (-23) Sun country airlines flight 791, during taxi for departure, experienced main landing gear number 3 wheel fracture. The wheel separated with extreme force…

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.