Boeing 720B N93144

8 January 1970 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 8 January 1970 at about 15:30 local time, a Boeing 720B registered N93144, operated by Western Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 48 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: 8 January 1970 at 15:30
Classification: Incident
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 720B
Registration: N93144
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Western Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Denver, Colo
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0003

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
48	0	0	0	48

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

EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION DUE FAILURE IN WALKWAY PRESSURE WEB. LANDED OK.

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 4-0003, 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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