- Date
- May 26, 1982, 18:55 local (May 27, 1982, 01:55 UTC)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA
- Injuries
- 25 minor, 113 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Pushback/towing
- Aircraft
- N1833UDouglas DC10-10
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 72493
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During the initial pushback from the gate prior to eng start a loud noise was heard & the acft nose slowly settled onto the tug that was performing the pushback. The captain ordered the acft evacuated using the emergency slides. The upper jaw of the towbar had failed due to extensive stress-corrosion cracking. This failure resulted in the towbar impacting the nose landing gear causing a failure of the nose gear lower drag link upper clevis. The nose gear then collapsed & the acft settled onto the tug.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1833U
- Reported as
- Douglas DC10-10
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 47965
- Airframe hours
- 26,769
- Engine
- GE CF6-6, 39,300 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- United Airlines
- Registered owner
- United Airlines
- Departed
- SFO · San Francisco, CA
- Destination
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Airport
- SFO · San Francisco
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 19,515 total · 1,249 in this make and model · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Temperature
- 140 °F