Boeing 737 N75436

Summary

On 9 June 2019 at about 21:55 local time, a Boeing 737 registered N75436, operated by United Air Lines Inc, was involved in an accident near Denver, Colorado, United States. 184 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

9 June 2019 at 21:55

Classification

Accident

Location

Denver, Colorado, United States

Nearest airport

Denver Intl (DEN)

Coordinates

39.8561, -104.6736

Aircraft

Boeing 737

Registration

N75436

Category

Airplane

Year built

2009

Engines

2

Operator

United Air Lines Inc

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Reno → Denver

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DCA19CA169

Nobody was injured.

the early initiation of the landing flare that resulted in a high pitch attitude and tailstrike.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On June 9, 2019, about 1555 MDT, United Airlines flight 401, a B737-924ER, N75436, experienced a tailstrike during landing at Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, Colorado.  There were no injuries to the 184 passengers and crew onboard.  The airplane received substantial damage.  The regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight was operating under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 from Reno International Airport (RNO), Reno, Nevada to DEN.  The first officer (FO) was the pilot flying and the captain was the pilot monitoring. During short final, the FO noticed he was about 5 knots fast, and about 50 feet above the runway, started to slowly reduce power and start the landing flare.  At touchdown the airplane bounced. The FO was about to advance throttles for a go-around, when the captain took control and continued the landing after a second bounce.  During the post flight walk around, the flight crew observed that the lower aft fuselage had sustained damaged due to a tailstrike.  Maintenance examination of the airplane found that the tailskid cartridge was compressed and there was substantial damage to the fuselage skin, frames, stringer clips and shear ties between fuselage station 827 to 907 and deformed stringers 27L and 27R. 

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.