Boeing 707 N7516A

24 April 1966 · Philadelphia Pa, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 24 April 1966 at about 20:10 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N7516A, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Philadelphia Pa, Pennsylvania, United States. 57 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: 24 April 1966 at 20:10
Classification: Incident
Location: Philadelphia Pa, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Philadelphia Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N7516A
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0021

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
57	0	0	0	57

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

STRUCK MIDDLE MARKER ANTENNA WIRES.

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 4-0021, 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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