- Date
- April 3, 1986, 13:32 local (19:32 UTC)
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN
- Injuries
- 161 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N508USBoeing 757-251
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13357
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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.
Analysis
N508US was operating as nwa flt 150. The captain stated after the incident that the flt was uneventful until landing. Upon landing and spoiler deployment, the acft pitched up abruptly, to an attitude of 10 degrees. The landing was completed without incident. Examination of the acft revealed damage to the acft fuselage belly. Boeing issued a service bulletin stating that spoiler deployment on touchdown would produce a nose up aerodynamic moment. Solutions to this occurrence is a modification to the spoiler deployment and use of auto braking during landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N508US
- Reported as
- Boeing 757-251
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23197
- Airframe hours
- 1,878
- Engine
- P&W 2037, 37,600 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Northwest Airline
- Registered owner
- First Nat'L Bank Boston Truste
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · April 3, 1986
- Departed
- SFO · San Francisco, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MSP · Minneapolis/St. Paul, runway 11R, 1,000 × 200 ft, asphalt
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
- 48
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 200 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MSP