Boeing 707 N366US

22 August 1970 · Jamaica, New York, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 22 August 1970 at about 15:00 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N366US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Jamaica, New York, United States. 147 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 22 August 1970 at 15:00
Classification: Incident
Location: Jamaica, New York, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N366US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Z → S
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0039

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
147	0	0	0	147

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

PLT BECAME ILL. CO-PLT TOOK OVER CTLS, LND OK. CAUSE OF PLTS ILLNESS NOT REPORTED.

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 4-0039, 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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