- Date
- April 14, 1993, 07:00 local (12:00 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas/Ft Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 38 minor, 162 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N139AADouglas DC-10-30
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1994
- Report
- Board-adopted at Board Meeting
- Investigation class
- Class 1
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- FAA report
- 19930414009339A
- Case key
- 10975
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The national transportation safety board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to use proper directional control techniques to maintain the airplane on the runway.
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
At the time flight 102 landed at dfw airport, it was raining and there were numerous thunderstorms in the area. Shortly after touchdown on runway 17 left, the pilot loss directional control when the airplane began to weathervane and the captain failed to use sufficient rudder control to regain the proper ground track. The airplane eventually departed the right side of the runway. At the time of landing the wind (a cross wind) was blowing at 15 knots with gusts approximately 5 knots above the steady wind speed.
Factual narrative
See NTSB blue cover accident report NTSB/AAR-94-01
Aircraft
- Registration
- N139AA
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-10-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46711
- Airframe hours
- 9,295
- Engine
- GE CF6-50C2, 51,800 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Registered owner
- Amr Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · April 11, 1993
- Departed
- HNL · Honolulu, HI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DFW · Dallas/Ft.Worth Intl, runway 17L, 11,388 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,562 total · 555 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 22 knots, gusting 33
- Visibility
- 1.5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 900 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DFW
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.