Boeing 720 N8702E

18 June 1964 · San Antonio Texas, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 18 June 1964 at about 12:53 local time, a Boeing 720 registered N8702E, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near San Antonio Texas, Texas, United States. 35 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: 18 June 1964 at 12:53
Classification: Incident
Location: San Antonio Texas, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: San Antonio Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 720
Registration: N8702E
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0012

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
35	0	0	0	35

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

THREE MAIN LANDING GEAR TIRES RUPTURED DURING LANDING

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 4-0012, 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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