Boeing 707 123B N7518

30 September 1964 · New Castle del, Delaware, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 30 September 1964 at about 21:22 local time, a Boeing 707 123B registered N7518, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near New Castle del, Delaware, United States. 46 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 30 September 1964 at 21:22
Classification: Incident
Location: New Castle del, Delaware, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707 123B
Registration: N7518
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0038

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
46	0	0	0	46

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

LOSS OF ELECTRICAL DC POWER DUE TO BIRD STRIKE DAMAGE TO J7-DC JUNCTION SHIELD.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 4-0038, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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Other Boeing 707 123 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Sep 1964	Boeing 707 123B N7504A	Palmdale Calif, California, United States no coordinates	Braniff Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-
12 Nov 1964	Boeing 707 123B N7516A	Nashville Tenn, Tennessee, United States no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
9 May 1965	Boeing 707 123 N7503A	Mineral Wells Tex, Texas, United States no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
5 Jul 1965	Boeing 707 123B N7507A	Texarkana Ark, Arkansas, United States no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
30 Jan 1966	Boeing-707 123 N7520A	Los Angeles, California, United States no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
11 Mar 1967	Boeing 707 123B N7553A	Newark, New Jersey, United States no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-

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