Boeing B-720 N7080

7 February 1966 · Little Rock Ark, Arkansas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 February 1966 at about 22:05 local time, a Boeing B-720 registered N7080, operated by Braniff Airways, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Little Rock Ark, Arkansas, United States. 105 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: 7 February 1966 at 22:05
Classification: Incident
Location: Little Rock Ark, Arkansas, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing B-720
Registration: N7080
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Braniff Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0005

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
105	0	0	0	105

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

LARGE SECTION OF FORWARD ENGINE COWLING SEPARATED IN-FLIGHT.

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 4-0005, 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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