- Date
- May 18, 1981
- Place
- New Orleans, LA · NEW ORLEANS, LA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 minor, 70 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1295LDouglas DC-9
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1981
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 126686
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0022 81/5/18 NR.NEW ORLEANS,LA DOUGLAS DC-9 CR- 0 1 4 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 2004 N1295L PX- 0 0 69 UNK/NR, 7000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 1500 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - DELTA AIR LINES,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MEMPHIS,TN NEW ORLEANS,LA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS PERSONNEL - FLIGHT PERSONNEL: FLIGHT ATTENDANT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN ON WEATHER - THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 2200 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1 MILE OR LESS HAIL, RAIN OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 180 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 22 IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1295L
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-9
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
N1295LRegistration cancelled Jan 31, 2013 · Douglas DC-9-32Airframe modelDouglas DC-9-32Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT8D-5
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.