- Date
- December 27, 1989, 11:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 53 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N822EABoeing 727-225B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891227065519A
- Case key
- 32609
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Probable cause
Fatal injury to a stowaway due to asphyxia and hypothermia.
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.
Miscellaneous/other
MiscellaneousCause
Analysis
Stowaway hid in unpressurized and unheated aft airstair area of airplane resulting in death due to asphyxia and hypothermia during flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N822EA
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-225B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22559
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-15, 15,000 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Eastern Air Lines, Inc, doing business as Eastern Airlines
- Registered owner
- Connecticut National Bank
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- TBPB · Bridgetown, OF
- Destination
- KMIA · Miami, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Certificates
- 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
- 17,000 total · 200 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.