Lockheed L-1011 N701DA

31 August 1978 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 31 August 1978 at about 06:30 local time, a Lockheed L-1011 registered N701DA, operated by Delta Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 139 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: 31 August 1978 at 06:30
Classification: Incident
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L-1011
Registration: N701DA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Atlanta, Ga → Chicago, Il
Aircraft damage: None
Light: Unknown/Not Reported
NTSB number: 4-0025

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
139	0	0	0	139

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

AIRCRAFT LOST CABIN PRESSURIZATION AT FL350.NO MALFUNCTION FOUND IN SYSTEM.

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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