- Date
- March 17, 1965
- Place
- Kansas City, MO · KANSAS CITY, MO
- Injuries
- 97 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N846TWBoeing B-727
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 179734
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0014 65/3/17 KANSAS CITY MO BOEING B-727 CR- 0 0 6 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1857 N846TW PX- 0 0 91 44, 16874 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 203 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - K.C.MUNICIPAL OPERATOR - TRANS WORLD AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE BROKEN 3200 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) SNOW SHOWERS RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND TEMPERATURE-F LEFT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 293-337 DEGREES 23 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 310 21 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR IFR REMARKS- PILOT LANDED ON RUNWAY 36 WITH WIND VARIABLE 280TO 300 DEGREES AT 20 TO 30 KNOTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N846TW
- Reported as
- Boeing B-727
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- K.C.Municipal
N846TWRegistration cancelled Sep 12, 2012 · Boeing 727-31Airframe modelBoeing 727-31Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT8D-1
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.