Boeing 707 N88705

14 January 1972 · El Paso, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 14 January 1972 at about 02:39 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N88705, operated by Continental Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near El Paso, Texas, United States. 63 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 14 January 1972 at 02:39
Classification: Incident
Location: El Paso, Texas, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N88705
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Continental Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Los Angeles, Calif → Houston, Tex
Aircraft damage: None
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0025

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
63	0	0	0	63

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

CAPT BECAME ILL,1ST OFFICER LNDD ACFT.

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 4-0025, 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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