Boeing B-727 N8102N

8 May 1966 · Fort Worth Tex, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 8 May 1966 at about 11:10 local time, a Boeing B-727 registered N8102N, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Fort Worth Tex, Texas, United States. 4 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 8 May 1966 at 11:10
Classification: Accident
Location: Fort Worth Tex, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: Carswell Afb
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing B-727
Registration: N8102N
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0050

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
4	0	0	0	4

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

FALSE, UNSAFE-GR INDN.PLT MADE HI-G TURN AND L.GRSUPPORT FAILED DUE MISSG BUSHING.GR-UP LNDG INTNL

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 1-0050, 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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