Boeing 727-22 N7020U

20 April 1966 · Sacramento Calif, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 20 April 1966 at about 06:45 local time, a Boeing 727-22 registered N7020U, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Sacramento Calif, California, United States. 31 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: 20 April 1966 at 06:45
Classification: Incident
Location: Sacramento Calif, California, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 727-22
Registration: N7020U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0019

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
31	0	0	0	31

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

INADVERTENT INFLIGHT THRUST REVERSAL OF ALL 3 ENGINES.

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 4-0019, 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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