Boeing 747 N9664

21 July 1971 · Los Angeles, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 21 July 1971 at about 10:48 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N9664, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the taxi phase of flight near Los Angeles, California, United States. 178 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: 21 July 1971 at 10:48
Classification: Incident
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nearest airport: Los Angeles Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N9664
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: Boston, Mass → S
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0012

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
178	0	0	0	178

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

FLT CREW DIDNT FOLLOW SET PROCEDURES. LOST BRAKING WHILE PARKING AT GATE. HIT SATTELITE LOUNGE.

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 4-0012, 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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