Boeing 737 N7373F

29 January 1979 · Grand Junction, Colorado, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 January 1979 at about 10:50 local time, a Boeing 737 registered N7373F, operated by Frontier Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Grand Junction, Colorado, United States. 2 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: 29 January 1979 at 10:50
Classification: Incident
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Nearest airport: Walker Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 737
Registration: N7373F
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Frontier Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Denver, Co → S
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0006

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

AILERON CONTROL BECAME STIFF WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH. NUMBER OF PAX ONBOARD NOT DETERMINED.

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 4-0006, 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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