Boeing 747 N606US

12 April 1972 · No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · Serious injuries

Summary

On 12 April 1972 at about 01:40 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N606US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 160 people were on board and 2 were seriously injured, 13 had minor injuries. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 12 April 1972 at 01:40
Classification: Accident
Location: No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N606US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Tokyo, Japan → Honolulu, Hawaii
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Moonlight-Bright)
NTSB number: 1-0007

People

2 people were seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
160	0	2	13	145

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

FLEW INTO UNFORECAST AND UNEXPECTED SEVERE CLEARAIR TURB.

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 1-0007, 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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Other Boeing 747 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
6 May 1972	Boeing 747 N605US	N.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
15 Dec 1972	Boeing 747 N602US	Miami, Florida, United States no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	Minor injuries	-
8 Mar 1972	Boeing 747 N738PA	London, Europe no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-
1 Nov 1972	Boeing 747 JA8107	Anchorage, Alaska, United States no coordinates	Japan Airlines	No injuries	-
18 Apr 1972	Boeing 747 N93115	Jamaica, New York, United States no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
24 May 1972	Boeing 747 N743PA	Boston, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-

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29 Mar 1972	De Havilland DH 114 N19D	N.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Heron Leasing	Minor injuries	-
20 Jun 1971	Boeing 707 N423PA	No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
26 Jul 1971	Douglas DC-8 N8975U	No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	United Air Lines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
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