- Date
- July 26, 1988, 19:08 local (23:08 UTC)
- Place
- Kenton, DE
- Injuries
- 50 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N14336Boeing 737-300
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880726040979I
- Case key
- 22576
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Analysis
A flameout of the #1 engine occurred due to water ingestion when the aircraft penetrated a vip level 5 thunderstorm and encountered heavy rain while descending with the throttles a flight idle. The engine suffered overtemperature damage to the turbine section during the subsequent windmilling start. The captain elected to descend in precipitation with the engines at idle, despite the copilot's warning that idle descent was contrary to recently published procedures which required maintaining a minimum of 45% N1 RPM. The precipitation induced flameout phenomena had been identified in previous incidents, and corrective procedures were issued by the FAA, the manufacturers, and the carrier, prior to this occurrence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N14336
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23574
- Airframe hours
- 5,420
- Engine
- GE CFM-56-3, 20,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Continental Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- MMUN · Cancun
- Destination
- EWR · Newark, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ILG
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,100 total · 1,120 in this make and model · 5,600 as pilot in command · 162 in the last 90 days · 66 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N14336 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.