- Date
- December 18, 1983, 11:41 local (17:41 UTC)
- Place
- Wichita, KS
- Injuries
- 47 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N968EDouglas DC-9-15
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 33571
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(partial) - mech failure/malf
Turbine assembly,shaft - failure,totalCause
Aborted takeoff - performed
Fire
Emergency procedure - performed
Analysis
A catastrophic (uncontainted) failure of the left engine occurred at the beginning of the takeoff roll. The takeoff was aborted & fire erupted on the taxi back to the gate. Investigation revealed a broken turbine long shaft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N968E
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-9-15
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 45786
- Airframe hours
- 38,764
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-7B, 14,000 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Continental Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ICT · Mid-Continent, runway 1R, 7,302 × 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 10,500 total · 340 in this make and model · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 3 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ICT