- Date
- July 24, 1988, 09:15 local (13:15 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 85 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N69AFBoeing 737-222
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32068
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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
Flt experienced failure of the number two engine shortly after takeoff when the combustion outer case ruptured. Metallurgical examination revealed the ruptured case had a 1/2 inch crack in it when it went through overhaul 16 cycles before the failure. It was further determined that the nickle and cadmium plating placed on the case at overhaul was not proper thickness resulting in cadmium embrittlement of the case base material and then the case rupture.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69AF
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-222
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19059
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-15A, 15,500 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Pan American World Airways, doing business as Pan Am
- Registered owner
- Heleasco Fifteen Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · July 20, 1988 · 16 hours before
- Destination
- DFW · Dallas, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MIA · Miami International, runway 27L, 13,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 55
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,300 total · 70 in this make and model · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MIA, 1 nm away