Boeing 707 131B N6781TW

25 September 1964 · Reading Pa, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 25 September 1964 at about 15:05 local time, a Boeing 707 131B registered N6781TW, operated by Trans World Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Reading Pa, Pennsylvania, United States. 54 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: 25 September 1964 at 15:05
Classification: Incident
Location: Reading Pa, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707 131B
Registration: N6781TW
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Trans World Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0031

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
54	0	0	0	54

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

COWLING LATCH P/N 65-LL645-44 FAILED AND TURBO COMPRESSOR SADDLE COWL SEPARATED FROM AIRCRAFT

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 4-0031, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
7 Dec 1964	Boeing 707 131B N796TW	New York Ny, New York, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
17 Feb 1965	Boeing 707 131B N750TW	Los Angeles Calif, California, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
4 Dec 1965	Boeing 707 131B N748TW	Carmel Ny, New York, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	Fatal	4
6 Jul 1965	Boeing 707 131B N756TW	Omaha Nebr, Nebraska, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
18 Oct 1966	Boeing 707 131 N745TW	Los Angeles, California, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	Minor injuries	-
15 Jul 1967	Boeing 707 131 N741TW	Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-

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