Boeing 727 N6821

19 April 1979 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 19 April 1979 at about 12:53 local time, a Boeing 727 registered N6821, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 71 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: 19 April 1979 at 12:53
Classification: Accident
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Philadelphia Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727
Registration: N6821
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Houston, Tx → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0032

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
71	0	0	0	71

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

WIND GUSTS TO 19 KTS.

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 1-0032, 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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