- Date
- July 3, 1984, 23:17 local (Jul 4, 1984, 05:17 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 75 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1992Boeing 727-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16274
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft went off the rwy during landing. The excursion was to the left & was not corrected before the acft made an exit from the rwy. The captain, in a written statement, said that he was anticipating a right x-wind because he was landing on rwy 26L & the wind was from 020 degrees at 12 KTS. He had already aborted a landing on rwy 17 due to a tailwind. The captain of another acft which landed in front of the incident acft reported a right x-wind. An FAA inspector, qualified in Boeing 727 acft, duplicated all conditions of the incident in a simulator and concluded that the incident was the result of improper technique or corrective action or a delay in response.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1992
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18448
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-11, 15,500 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- American Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- ORD · Chicago, IL
- Destination
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DEN · Stapleton Int'L, runway 26L, 10,010 × 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
- 50
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,625 total · 9,100 in this make and model · 150 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 200° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN
Other investigations on N1992 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.