- Date
- March 7, 1968
- Place
- Jamaica, NY · JAMAICA, NY
- Injuries
- 71 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7551ABoeing 707
- Status
- Completed · report March 22, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 110626
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-0004 68/3/7 JAMAICA,NY BOEING 707 CR- 0 0 8 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - 1417 N7551A PX- 0 0 63 UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT NAME OF AIRPORT - JFK INTL OPERATOR - AMERICAN AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT PITCH CONTROL PROBLEM SUSPECTED OR KNOWN AIRCRAFT DAMAGE REMARKS- HORIZONTAL STABILIZER JAMMED. DUMPED FUEL AND LANDED SAFELY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7551A
- Reported as
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- No damage
- Airport
- Jfk Intl
N7551ARegistration cancelled Jun 22, 1983 · Boeing 707-123BAirframe modelBoeing 707-123BEngine modelPratt & Whitney JT3D-3&3B
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.