Boeing 737 N754UA

Summary

On 12 August 1987 at about 02:00 local time, a Boeing 737 registered N754UA, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident near Santa Monica, California, United States. 46 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

12 August 1987 at 02:00

Classification

Incident

Location

Santa Monica, California, United States

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Boeing 737

Registration

N754UA

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

American Airlines, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Purpose of flight

Unknown

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

San Francisco → Los Angeles

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX87IA304

Nobody was injured.

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

THE PLTS OF A BOEING 737 REPORTED THAT A NEAR-COLLISION OCCURRED APRX 2.5 MILES EAST OF THE SANTA MONICA VOR WHILE THEY WERE DESCENDING THROUGH AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 7400 FT MSL. THE COPLT SAW THE OTHER ACFT FIRST & TOOK IMMEDIATE EVASIVE ACTION. HE ESTIMATED THEY PASSED THE UNIDENTIFIED ACFT WITH APRX 100 FT SEPARATION. THE OTHER ACFT WAS NOT VISUALLY OBSERVED BY THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED OUTSIDE THE LOS ANGELES TCA WHERE ENCODING ALTIMETERS WERE NOT REQUIRED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.