Douglas DC-8 N801WA

27 March 1974 · Anchorage, Alaska, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 27 March 1974 at about 19:40 local time, a Douglas DC-8 registered N801WA, operated by World Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Anchorage, Alaska, United States. 233 people were on board and one was seriously injured, 11 had minor injuries. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 27 March 1974 at 19:40
Classification: Accident
Location: Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Nearest airport: Anchorage Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-8
Registration: N801WA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: World Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: Travis Afb, Calif → Utapao, Thailand
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0019

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
233	0	1	11	221

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

TREAD SEPARATED FM #2 MN TIRE.PSGR FELL OFF EVACSLIDE.

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 1-0019, 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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17 Feb 1974	Douglas DC-8 N8639	Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	Seaboard World Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
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7 Feb 1974	Douglas DC-8 F-BOLH	Los Angeles, California, United States no coordinates	Other-Foreign Flag Carrier	Serious injuries	-
16 May 1974	Douglas DC-8 N8960	Jamaica, New York, United States no coordinates	Other-Foreign Flag Carrier	Fatal	-

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