Boeing 747 N606US

20 June 1971 · Tokyo, Asia · No injuries

Summary

On 20 June 1971 at about 22:30 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N606US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Tokyo, Asia. 219 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: 20 June 1971 at 22:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Tokyo, Asia
Nearest airport: Tokyo Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N606US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → San Francisco, Calif
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0039

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
219	0	0	0	219

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

INVESTIGATION UNDER JURISDICTION OF THE GOVT OF JAPAN.

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 1-0039, 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.

Also in

Asia 136 Northwest Airlines, Inc. 79 Boeing 747 429 1971 4,882

Other Boeing 747 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
26 Apr 1971	Boeing 747 N26863	Denver, Colorado, United States no coordinates	Continental Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
24 Aug 1971	Boeing 747 N748PA	Los Angeles, California, United States no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-
2 Sep 1971	Boeing 747 N606US	Seattle, Washington, United States no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
9 Oct 1971	Boeing 747 N601US	Seattle, Washington, United States no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
24 Feb 1971	Boeing 747 N26861	Denver, Colorado, United States no coordinates	Continental Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
4 Jan 1971	Boeing 747 N735PA	Jamaica, New York, United States no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-

All 429 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Nov 1971	Aero Comdr 680-V N2655	Aminabad, Asia no coordinates	Lease-Air Serv	No injuries	-
13 Feb 1971	Beechcraft VOLPAR N3674G	Tam Ky, Asia no coordinates	Air America, In	No injuries	-
2 Dec 1971	Lake LA-4 N7612L	Seoul, Asia no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
2 Aug 1971	Pilatus PC-6H2 N195X	Long Tieng, Asia no coordinates	Air America, In	Fatal	1
14 Feb 1971	Douglas DC-3 N55L	Phnom Penh, Asia no coordinates	Air Alliance	Fatal	2
20 Apr 1971	Pilatus PC6CH2 N199X	Chiang Mai, Asia no coordinates	Air America, In	Minor injuries	-

All 136 records in Asia