- Date
- June 27, 1992, 21:40 local (Jun 28, 1992, 01:40 UTC)
- Place
- Jamica, NY
- Injuries
- 195 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N602TWBoeing 767-231ER
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 37082
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Probable cause
The failure of the fifth stage low pressure turbine vanes due to fatigue.
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.
Analysis
The Boeing 767 was climbing through 1000 feet after takeoff when there was an uncontained failure of the right engine. The engine was shut down and the airplane returned for an overweight landing. Examination of the engine revealed that three vanes in the fifth stage low pressure turbine had failed due to fatigue. Engine debris caused minor damage to the lower wing, fuselage, landing gear doors, and wing flaps on the right side of the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N602TW
- Reported as
- Boeing 767-231ER
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22565
- Airframe hours
- 37,066
- Engine
- P&W JT9D-7R4, 48,000 horsepower, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Trans World Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · May 5, 1992 · 591 hours before
- Destination
- ESSA · Stockholm, OF
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JFK · John F Kennedy, runway 13L, 14,572 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19,559 total · 141 in this make and model · 16,556 as pilot in command · 198 in the last 90 days · 57 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
Other investigations on N602TW · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.