Lockheed L-1011 N324EA

12 January 1979 · Newark, New Jersey, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 12 January 1979 at about 17:24 local time, a Lockheed L-1011 registered N324EA, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the taxi phase of flight near Newark, New Jersey, United States. 237 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: 12 January 1979 at 17:24
Classification: Incident
Location: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Nearest airport: Newark
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L-1011
Registration: N324EA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: Miami, Fl → S
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0002

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
237	0	0	0	237

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

FIRE DEVELOPED FWD WASTE TANK COMP.HEATER NIPPLEFAILED.

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 4-0002, 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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