Boeing 727-25 N8148N

Summary

On 26 December 1988 at about 13:45 local time, a Boeing 727-25 registered N8148N, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident near Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. 110 people were on board and 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

26 December 1988 at 13:45

Classification

Incident

Location

Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Boeing 727-25

Registration

N8148N

Category

Airplane

Engines

3

Operator

Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Purpose of flight

Unknown

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Rochester → Atlanta

Aircraft damage

Minor

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DCA89IA016

2 people had minor injuries.

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

FUSELAGE SKIN 'FLAPPED' OPEN BETWEEN BODY STATIONS 1090 AND 1110 AND PEELED DOWNWARD FROM STRINGER #4 LEFT TO STRINGER #5 LEFT. A SCRATCH OR SCRIBE MARK WAS CO-LOCATED WITH THE LONGITUDINAL CRACK ALONG STRINGER #4. THE AREA OF DAMAGE WAS LOCATED ON THE AFT UPPER SIDE, FWD OF THE INLET FOR THE #2 ENGINE. THE CRACK HAD INITIATED AT MULTIPLE ORIGINS ALONG THE SCORE MARK AND HAD GROWN BY FATIGUE THROUGH THE THICKNESS OF THE MATERIAL. A STRIATION COUNT FOUND THAT BETWEEN 3360 AND 5040 CYCLES OF FATIGUE PROGRESSION WERE PRESENT. THE SCRATCH/SCORE WAS MADE BY USE OF MARKING TOOLS DURING A REPAIR PROCESS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.