Boeing 727 N1971

6 December 1964 · New York Ny, New York, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 6 December 1964 at about 13:00 local time, a Boeing 727 registered N1971, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near New York Ny, New York, United States. 94 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: 6 December 1964 at 13:00
Classification: Incident
Location: New York Ny, New York, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727
Registration: N1971
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0047

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
94	0	0	0	94

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

SPOILER CENTER HINGE FITTING FAILED ALLOWED ACTUATOR TO PUNCH THRU #4 SPOILER SKIN

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 4-0047, 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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