- Date
- December 5, 1974
- Place
- Bogota, Colombia · BOGOTA, Colombia
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 2 minor, 115 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1803Douglas DC-8
- Status
- Completed · report March 14, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 141163
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0043 74/12/5 NR.BOGOTA,COLOMBIA DOUGLAS DC-8 CR- 0 1 6 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 2100 N1803 PX- 0 1111 53, 18810 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 254 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - BRANIFF AIRWAYS,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION TOCUMEN,PANAMA BOGOTA,COLOMBIA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: DESCENDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS PERSONNEL - FLIGHT PERSONNEL PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN ON WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1/4 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- CREW GAVE BOTH VISUAL AND ORAL WARNINGS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1803
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-8
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
N1803Registration cancelled Apr 13, 2017 · Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-62Airframe modelMcdonnell Douglas DC-8-62Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT3D series
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.
Other investigations on N1803 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.