- Date
- May 15, 1966
- Place
- Oneill, NE · ONEILL, NE
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 38 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8015UDouglas DC-8
- Status
- Completed · report May 19, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 172921
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0037 66/5/15 NR.ONEILL NEBR DOUGLAS DC-8 CR- 0 0 7 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 0300 N8015U PX- 0 2 31 46, 13100 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 1090 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - UNITED AIR LINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS WEATHER - THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN OFF WEATHER BRIEFING - COMPANY DISPATCH WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 3500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- FLT OPERATED IN AREA OF SQUALL LINE.CREW MADE ALT AND COURSE CHNGES TO AVOID.DID NOT ALERT PAX.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8015U
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-8
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
N8015URegistration cancelled Jul 19, 2002 · Douglas DC-8-21Airframe modelDouglas DC-8-21Engine modelPratt & Whitney JT4A-3&5SER
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.
Other investigations on N8015U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.