- Date
- June 23, 1984, 20:25 local (Jun 24, 1984, 01:25 UTC)
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- GSAILBoeing 707-323C
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Case key
- 15818
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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
About 26 min before landing crew received SIGMET 1C advising of line of thunderstorms from milwaukee to st. louis movingse at 15 KTS. They also became aware of a thunderstorm west of arpt. At about 20 mi NE of arpt they could see the storm visually & on radar west of arpt. About 15 mi out crew ceased looking at radar due to increasing workload & groundclutter. Rain increased in intensity during final approach. Acft landed, overran rwy & hit apch light. Crew did not consult landing field length chart in company ops manual. Chart indicates a stopping distance of 7,930 ft from initial brake application for a 'very wet' rwy. Another flt which was arriving in the arpt area at the time of the accident received vectors north of the arpt & held for about 10 min. They then flew '...on the back side of th weather for an approach to runway 14R...' Rwy 27L, 10141 ft long, was available.
Aircraft
- Registration
- GSAIL
- Reported as
- Boeing 707-323C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18690
- Airframe hours
- 44,863
- Engine
- P&W JT3D-3B, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 129
- Registered owner
- Tradewinds Airways Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- Gndr,Newfndland
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ORD · O'Hare Intl, runway 22R, 7,500 × 150 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,148 total · 1,923 in this make and model · 12 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 290° at 15 knots, gusting 31
- Visibility
- 1 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORD, 10 nm away