- Date
- April 19, 1969
- Place
- Dulles Int Apt, VA · DULLES INT APT, VA
- Injuries
- 39 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N751TWBoeing 707
- Status
- Completed · report June 24, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 185783
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-0009 69/4/19 DULLES INT APT,VA BOEING 707 CR- 0 0 7 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - 1825 N751TW PX- 0 0 32 UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT OPERATOR - TRANS WORLD AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS IN FLIGHT: CLIMB TO CRUISE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY REMARKS- RT LEADING EDGE FLAPS WOULD NOT RETRACT. DUMPED FUEL AND LANDED SAFELY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N751TW
- Reported as
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
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