- Date
- December 28, 1983, 17:25 local (22:25 UTC)
- Place
- New York, NY
- Injuries
- 127 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N79750Boeing 727-224
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831228075919A
- Case key
- 23890
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
During apch the crew was advised of a windshear on final apch of +10 to -15 KTS at 700 ft & 400 ft AGL. Winds were reported 170 deg at 26 KTS gusting to 40 KTS. The plt added 20 KTS to his v-ref speed of 132 KTS & selected auto-spoilerdeployment. Prior to touchdown crew was advised again of a windshear alert in several quadrants. After touchdown the acft bounced & the auto-spoilers deployed. The acft touched down again in what the crew described as a firm landing. Theflt engr found no apparent damage so the crew did not write it up as a hard landing. On 12/31 damage was found on the upper crown of the fuselage between stations 660 & 680 from stringer S-10 left to S-10 right. Later inspections revealednose gear damage also. Flt recorder read-out indicated that the approach speed varied from 143 to 170 KTS with a touchdown speed of 163 KTS. Significant windshear existed below 1,000 ft MSL & moderate to severe turbulence existed below 5,000 ft MSL. Updrafts & downdrafts existed below 100 ft AGL due to convergence/divergence of the winds.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79750
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-224
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22452
- Airframe hours
- 7,176
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-15, 15,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Continental Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · December 25, 1983 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LGA · La Guardia, runway 13, 7,000 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 46
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight engineer, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,750 total · 6,100 in this make and model · 4,605 as pilot in command · 231 in the last 90 days · 79 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 180° at 28 knots, gusting 30
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LGA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N79750 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.