Boeing 707 N7508A

5 April 1977 · St Louis, Missouri, United States · Minor injuries

Summary

On 5 April 1977 at about 09:36 local time, a Boeing 707 registered N7508A, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near St Louis, Missouri, United States. 52 people were on board and one had minor injuries. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 April 1977 at 09:36
Classification: Incident
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States
Nearest airport: St Louis Lambert
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 707
Registration: N7508A
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Los Angeles, Ca
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0008

People

1 person had minor injuries.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
52	0	0	1	51

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

#3 PYLON MID-SPAR ATTACHMENT FITTING.PYLON & ENGINE 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 4-0008, 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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