- Date
- January 20, 1984, 17:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Tampa, FL
- Injuries
- 152 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8852EBoeing 727-225A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31032
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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
The acft experienced a rapid loss of fuel quanity on the #1 fuel tank during the climb to cruise. Investigation revealed that prior to this flt the water separator access door had been replaced by a fabricated metal plate which separated in flt. The separated plate inflicted damage to one of the #1 fuel inspection plates and fuel was dumped overboard.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8852E
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-225A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- QA628
- Airframe hours
- 35,250
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-15, 15,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Eastern Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- TPA · Tampa, FL
- Destination
- HIO · Houston, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,444 total · 5,052 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PIE, 150 nm away