Boeing 747SP N537PA

15 December 1980 · San Francisco, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 15 December 1980 at about 14:08 local time, a Boeing 747SP registered N537PA, operated by Pan American World Airlines, was involved in an incident during the takeoff phase of flight near San Francisco, California, United States. 170 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: 15 December 1980 at 14:08
Classification: Incident
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Nearest airport: San Francisco Int
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747SP
Registration: N537PA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Pan American World Airlines
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Hong Kong
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0017

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
170	0	0	0	170

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

EXTENSIVE FOD TO ALL #4ENG 1ST STAGE FAN BLADES.TAILCONE SEPD.UNKNOWN BIRD SPECIES.

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 4-0017, 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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