Boeing 707 N7521

1 January 1974 · San Antonio, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 1 January 1974 at about 18:40 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N7521, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near San Antonio, Texas, United States. 127 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: 1 January 1974 at 18:40
Classification: Accident
Location: San Antonio, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: San Antonio Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N7521
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: S → Chicago, Ill
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0011

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
127	0	0	0	127

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

LITES OF OTHER ACFT BLENDED IN WITH RNWY, TAXIWY LITES.R WG HIT CESSNA TAIL.

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 1-0011, 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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