Boeing 727 N498US

30 October 1972 · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 30 October 1972 at about 16:47 local time, a Boeing 727 registered N498US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near Washington, District of Columbia, United States. 27 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: 30 October 1972 at 16:47
Classification: Accident
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Nearest airport: Washington Natl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727
Registration: N498US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: Cleveland, Ohio → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0046

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
27	0	0	0	27

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

LEFT MAIN LDG GEAR TRUNNION SUPPORT BEAM SEPARATED.

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 1-0046, 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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