- Date
- September 25, 1986, 21:17 local (Sep 26, 1986, 01:17 UTC)
- Place
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Injuries
- 99 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N402EAMcDonnell Douglas DC-9-51
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Case key
- 15859
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
On this page
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
Drg arrival, the flt crew made a visual apch to rwy 23L in calm wind conds. Flt crew statements indicated that when they were on final apch at about 100 ft AGL, the acft was on the proper glidepath for landing. However the resulting grnd contact was harder than normal resulting in minor damage to the acft but no reported injuries.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N402EA
- Reported as
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 47683
- Airframe hours
- 30,686
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-17, 16,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Eastern Airlines Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · September 22, 1986
- Departed
- LGA · New York, NY
- Destination
- RDU
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- KRDU · Raleigh-Durham, runway 23L, 7,500 × 150 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
- 54
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,159 total · 1,335 in this make and model · 3,737 as pilot in command · 212 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- RDU