- Date
- August 28, 1973
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA · LOS ANGELES, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 3 serious, 1 minor, 147 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8705TBoeing 707
- Status
- Completed · report March 5, 1973
- Safety recommendations
- Yes
- Case key
- 79469
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0042 73/8/28 NR.LOS ANGELES,CALIF BOEING 707 CR- 0 1 10 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 2050 N8705T PX- 1 2138 53, 26171 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 8170 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - TRANS WORLD AIRLINES,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LAST ENROUTE STOP BANGKOK,THAILAND SAN FRANCISCO,CALIF LOS ANGELES,CALIF TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS IN FLIGHT: DESCENDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - PRODUCTION-DESIGN-PERSONNEL: OTHER SYSTEMS - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN OFF REMARKS- COMBN OF DSGN TLRNCS OF LONGL CTL SYS PRODUCED ATYPICAL CTL FORCE CHARCS.ACFT PORPOISED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8705T
- Reported as
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
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Other investigations on N8705T · 1
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