- Date
- April 7, 1971
- Place
- Jamaica, NY · JAMAICA, NY
- Injuries
- 109 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- VT-DPMBoeing 707
- Status
- Completed · report July 24, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 161300
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C-0002 71/4/7 JAMAICA,NY BOEING 707 CR- 0 0 10 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - 2128 VT-DPM PX- 0 0 99 UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - AIR INDIA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION JAMAICA,NY LONDON,ENGLAND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISCELLANEOUS TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) SYSTEMS - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: RUDDER AND RUDDER TAB CONTROL SYSTEM MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SHEARED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT DIRECTIONAL CONTROL PROBLEM REMARKS- SHAFT,PN69-50237-1,IN RUDDER POWER GEAR BOX SHEARED.AIR INDIA REPORTED LUBRICANT WAS DRY AND HARD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- VT-DPM
- Reported as
- Boeing 707
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
- Airport
- J.F.Kennedy