- Date
- December 8, 1967
- Place
- Denver, CO · DENVER, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 72 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3158Boeing 720
- Status
- Completed · report November 5, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 113464
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0069 67/12/8 NR.DENVER,COLO BOEING 720 CR- 0 0 7 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1447 N3158 PX- 0 1 65 39, UNK/NR TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - WESTERN AIR LINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNCONTROLLED ALTITUDE DEVIATIONS IN FLIGHT: CLIMB TO CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- INTERMITTENT MALFUNCTION OF UNKNOWN SOURCE IN PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM. PAX THROWN TO FLOOR OF LAV.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3158
- Reported as
- Boeing 720
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
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