Boeing 707 N8406

1 May 1973 · No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 1 May 1973 at about 09:30 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N8406, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 84 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: 1 May 1973 at 09:30
Classification: Incident
Location: No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N8406
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: New York, Ny → Port Au Prince, Haiti
Aircraft damage: None
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0010

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
84	0	0	0	84

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

PORTABLE OXYGEN GENERATOR IGNITED.

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 4-0010, 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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