# NTSB FTW86LA132: Boeing 727-200, Dfw Airport, TX, August 9, 1986

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Serious injuries · Limited investigation · Final report
- Date: August 9, 1986, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place: Dfw Airport, TX
- Location: 32.8972° N, 97.0377° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTL (DFW), within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.8972&lon=-97.0377&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Highest injury: Serious injuries
- Injuries: 1 serious, 94 uninjured
- Status: Completed
- Report: Approved by Office Director
- NTSB case key (mKey): 22060
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=FTW86LA132
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/22060/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/FTW86LA132

## Sequence of events

In NTSB's coding before 2008 (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf).

- Miscellaneous/other, cruise - normal
  - reason for occurrence undetermined (cause)

## Analysis

THE AIRCRAFT WAS IN SMOOTH AIR AND IN STRAIGHT AND LEVEL FLIGHT. THE 'FASTEN SEAT BELT' SIGN WAS ILLUMINATED. A MALE PASSENGER WENT TO THE FORWARD LAVATORY AND FELL, INJURING HIS HEAD AND BACK. THE FLOOR WAS DRY AND THERE WAS NO LOOSE OR TORN CARPET OT OTHER LOOSE OBJECTS WHICH COULD HAVE CAUSED HIM TO SLIP OR STUMBLE. THE REASON FOR HIS FALL WHILE IN THE LAVATORY IS UNDETERMINED.

## Aircraft

- Registration: XAMXG (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BOEING 727-200
- Category: Airplane
- Engines: P&W JT8D turbo jet
- Damage: No damage
- Flight: Part 129
- Operator: Mexicana Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Transport
- Departed: ACAPULCO
- Destination: DFW, DFW AIRPORT, TX
- Flight plan: IFR

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 33; foreign, airline transport; airplane ratings: multi-engine land; medical: unknown, unknown; seat: left

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 200° at 7 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility: 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 95 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter: 29.00 inHg
- Observed at: DFW, 100 nm away

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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