- Date
- August 25, 1973
- Place
- Grnd Turk Is, Burkina Faso · GRND TURK IS, Bahamas
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 178 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N318EALockheed L-1011
- Status
- Completed · report February 7, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 189825
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0032 73/8/25 NR.GRND TURK IS,BAH LOCKHEED L-1011 CR- 0 0 12 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1408 N318EA PX- 0 1166 UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - EASTERN AIR LINES,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SAN JUAN,PR MIAMI,FLA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN ON WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR
Aircraft
- Registration
- N318EA
- Reported as
- Lockheed L-1011
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
N318EARegistration cancelled May 12, 1989 · Lockheed L-1011-385-1Airframe modelLockheed L-1011-385-1
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.