- Date
- July 18, 1990, 16:48 local (20:48 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Myers, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 150 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6834Boeing 727-223
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900718032869A
- Case key
- 32682
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Probable cause
Unforecasted encounter with weather. The airplane encountered severe turblence during enroute descent, resulting in one flight attendant sustaining serious injury, and one passenger sustaining minor injury.
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
An American airlines, Boeing 727-223, was IFR at flight level 30,200. The airplane was 15 nautical miles, northwest of Fort Myers, Florida, in a descent to miami international airport, miami, Florida, when it experienced an unforecasted encounter with weather (sever turblence). The airplane was not damaged. One flight attendant sustained serious injury, and one passenger sustained minor injuries. The airplane arrived at destination airport without firther incident. Analysis of the flight data recorder revealed the airplane was subjected to a series of oscillating vertical ('g') loads for a period of 50 seconds. The maximum g load was 1.94, and the minimum was -0.55.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6834
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-223
- Category
- Airplane
- Airframe hours
- 59,063
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-9, 16,000 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- American Airlines Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- DFW · Dallas, TX
- Destination
- MIA · Miami, FL
- 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,500 total · 573 in this make and model · 93 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 115 nm away
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 N6834 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.