Boeing 747 N4761U

5 July 1981 · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 5 July 1981 at about 15:10 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N4761U, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. 320 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 July 1981 at 15:10
Classification: Incident
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N4761U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: San Francisco, Ca → S
Aircraft damage: None
Light: Unknown/Not Reported
NTSB number: 4-0012

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
320	0	0	0	320

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

ALL 4 ENGS FLAMED OUT AT FL390, RESTARTED BY THE TIME ACFT HAD DESCENDED TO FL260.

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 4-0012, 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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