- Date
- July 2, 1983, 09:25 local (16:25 UTC)
- Place
- Los Angeles, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 133 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N88708Boeing 727-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23591
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Procedures/directives - inadequateCause
Analysis
During taxi into the terminal the acft left wing hit a parked tow truck boom. The tow truck was not authorized to be parked in the clear zone due to its height.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88708
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19799
- Airframe hours
- 48,170
- Engine
- P&W JT89-D, 1,450 horsepower, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Continetnal Airlines Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- IAH · Houston, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LAX · Los Angeles International
N88708Registration cancelled May 15, 2013 · Boeing 727-224Airframe modelBoeing 727-224Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT8D-1
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 14,805 total · 4,340 in this make and model · 6,750 as pilot in command · 253 in the last 90 days · 77 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft unknown
- Temperature
- 68 °F
- Observed at
- LAX
Other investigations on N88708 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.