- Date
- March 17, 1970
- Place
- Boston, MA · BOSTON, MA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 serious, 68 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8925EDouglas DC-9
- Status
- Completed · report July 2, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 131129
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-0015 70/3/17 NR.BOSTON,MASS DOUGLAS DC-9 CR- 1 1 3 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 2012 N8925E PX- 0 1 65 35, 7814 TOTAL HOURS, 125 DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT OPERATOR - EASTERN AIR LINES,INC. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION NEWARK,NJ BOSTON,MASS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: OTHER REMARKS- PX HI-JACKED ACFT USING PISTOL.STRUGGLE OCRD DURG WHICH CO-PLT,PLT AND PX WERE SHOT.PLT LNDD ACFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8925E
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-9
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
N8925ERegistration cancelled Aug 3, 2010 · Douglas DC-9-31Airframe modelDouglas DC-9-31Engine 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.