Boeing 727 N7025U

27 August 1966 · Buffalo Ny, New York, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 27 August 1966 at about 21:16 local time, a Boeing 727 registered N7025U, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Buffalo Ny, New York, United States. 39 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: 27 August 1966 at 21:16
Classification: Incident
Location: Buffalo Ny, New York, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727
Registration: N7025U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0030

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
39	0	0	0	39

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

NO.3 ENGINE ELEVENTH STAGE COMPRESSOR DISC FAILED. INBOARD COWL PANEL BURNED THROUGH.

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 4-0030, 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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