Boeing 747 N4735U

24 August 1975 · No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · No injuries

Summary

On 24 August 1975 at about 16:48 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N4735U, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 268 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: 24 August 1975 at 16:48
Classification: Incident
Location: No.pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 747
Registration: N4735U
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: San Francisco, Ca → Honolulu, Hi
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0016

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
268	0	0	0	268

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

FIRE IN ENG COWL. 7TH STAGE COMPRESSOR DISC RIM SEPARATED.

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 4-0016, 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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