- Date
- February 23, 1993, 11:58 local (16:58 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 191 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N678DLBoeing 757-232
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930223004609A
- Case key
- 37338
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The improper use of elevator flight control during the landing by the pilot in command.
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
During climb to cruise the no. 2 engine failed due to fatigue cracking of the 15th stage stator vanes. During landing at the airport, upon touchdown the digital flight data recorder recorded control column movement foreward. The airplane landed on the nose gear hard damaging the nose gear mount and the fuselage keel beam.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N678DL
- Reported as
- Boeing 757-232
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25983
- Airframe hours
- 2,258
- Engine
- P&W 2037, 40,900 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Delta Airlines
- Registered owner
- Delta Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · February 23, 1993 · 1 hours before
- Departed
- FLL
- Destination
- ATL · Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- FLL · Ft Lauderdale Hollywood, runway 27, 9,001 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 17 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 1 nm away
Docket · 22
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 3, 1995, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.3 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.