- Date
- January 7, 1984, 00:53 local (08:53 UTC)
- Place
- Seattle, WA
- Injuries
- 81 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N876AABoeing 727-223
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 39835
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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.
Analysis
The capt stated that upon visual contact with the rwy, the acft was displaced slightly to the lt & he corrected toward centerline with rt rudder. Wing tip contact was neither heard not felt in the cockpit. There were several concurrent reports of arriving acft being displaced to the lt when executing the rwy 34 ILS. A flt & grd check of the system reported operations to be within tolerance.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N876AA
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-223
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21388
- Airframe hours
- 16,343
- Engine
- P&W JT8D-9, 14,500 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Alaska Airlines Inc
- Registered owner
- American Airlines Incorp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- SEA · Seattle, WA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SEA · Sea-Tac Int'L Arpt, runway 34, 11,900 × 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
- 43
- Certificate
- 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
- 14,300 total · 95 in the last 90 days · 46 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 20° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 400 ft
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SEA, 1 nm away