- Date
- January 22, 1963
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA · BAKERSFIELD, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 minor, 61 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8029UDouglas DC-8
- Status
- Completed · report August 21, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 191348
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0021 63/1/22 NR.BAKERSFIELD,CALIF DOUGLAS DC-8 CR- 0 0 7 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1551 N8029U PX- 0 1 57 47, 20164 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 1805 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - UNITED AIR LINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION EVASIVE MANEUVER IN FLIGHT: DESCENDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PILOT OF OTHER AIRCRAFT REMARKS- PLT PULLED UP SUDDENLY TO AVOID UNIDENTIFIED JET FIGHTER ACFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8029U
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-8
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
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