Douglas DC-8-6 N862FT

29 November 1978 · Houston, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 November 1978 at about 09:45 local time, a Douglas DC-8-6 registered N862FT, operated by Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Houston, Texas, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 29 November 1978 at 09:45
Classification: Incident
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: Intercontinental
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-8-6
Registration: N862FT
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Dallas Fortworth, Tx → S
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0026

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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.

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IFR CHANGED TO VFR

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 4-0026, 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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