Boeing 747 N804FT

15 February 1979 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 15 February 1979 at about 09:11 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N804FT, operated by Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 6 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: 15 February 1979 at 09:11
Classification: Accident
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport: O'hare Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N804FT
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Seattle, Wa → New York, Ny
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0012

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
6	0	0	0	6

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

NEAR-COLLISION.APCH CONTROLLER FAILED TO EFFECT ADEQUATE SPACING BTN THIS ACFT & PRECEDING ACFT.

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 1-0012, 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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