- Date
- January 13, 1983, 21:04 local (Jan 14, 1983, 03:04 UTC)
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Injuries
- 201 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N115AAMcdonnell Douglas DC10-10
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 12042
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Miscellaneous/other
Light condition - dark nightFactor
Flare - excessiveCause
Improper use of equipment/aircraftFactor
Proper assistance - not performedCause
InattentiveFactor
Analysis
Too high a deck angle was attained during the flare & the acft floated dragging its tail on touchdown & leaving a 2 ft piece of metal on the rwy. The first officer was at the controls.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N115AA
- Reported as
- Mcdonnell Douglas DC10-10
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46515
- Airframe hours
- 29,165
- Engine
- GE CF-6K, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- American Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DEN · Dallas, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ORD · O'Hare, runway 32, 11,600 × 150 ft, concrete
N115AARegistration cancelled Jun 10, 2002 · Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10-10Airframe modelMcdonnell Douglas DC-10-10Engine modelGE CF6-6 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19,200 total · 700 in this make and model · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 9 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 19 °F
- Observed at
- ORD