Douglas DC-10 N1815U

16 October 1975 · Seattle, Washington, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 16 October 1975 at about 16:36 local time, a Douglas DC-10 registered N1815U, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near Seattle, Washington, United States. 132 people were on board and one was seriously injured, 13 had minor injuries. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 16 October 1975 at 16:36
Classification: Accident
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Nearest airport: Seattle-Tacoma
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-10
Registration: N1815U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: S → San Francisco, Ca
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0037

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
132	0	1	13	118

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

APU P-3 AIR SUPPLY LINE MISSING.DRG SHUTDWN FUELCTL MALF, CAUSED FIRE-INJ OCCURRED DRG EVAC.

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 1-0037, 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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