Boeing 727 N491US

13 March 1971 · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 13 March 1971 at about 15:45 local time, a Boeing 727 registered N491US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the takeoff phase of flight near Washington, District of Columbia, United States. 22 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: 13 March 1971 at 15:45
Classification: Incident
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Nearest airport: Washington Natl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727
Registration: N491US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Z
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0025

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
22	0	0	0	22

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

ELEVTR CTLS SLOPPY, ERRATIC, LARGE INPUTS REQD.NO CAUSE FOUND, UN DUPE PROBLEM DURG INVEST.

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 4-0025, 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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