Boeing 727-233 CGYNE
8 August 1987 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 8 August 1987 at about 19:25 local time, a Boeing 727-233 registered CGYNE was involved in an incident near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 135 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.
The record
- Date
- at 19:25
- Classification
- Incident
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Nearest airport
- Palwaukee (PWK)
- Coordinates
- Not recorded
- Aircraft
- Boeing 727-233
- Registration
- CGYNE
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 3
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 129: Foreign
- Purpose of flight
- Unknown
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Chicago → Calgary, Canada
- Aircraft damage
- Not recorded
- Weather
- IMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- CHI87IA188
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 135 |
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
AIR CANADA FLT 839 (BOEING 727, C-GYNE) WAS DEPG CHICAGO O'HARE INTL ARPT AS CESSNA 650 (CITATION), N20AT, WAS DEPG PALWAUKEE (PWK) ARPT, ABOUT 8 MI NORTH OF O'HARE. BOTH FLTS TKOF WITH IFR FLT PLANS. BFR THE CITATION TKOF, THE PWK TWR CTLR CTCD THE TRACON NORTH SATELLITE CTLR (NC) & OBTAINED CLNC FOR THE CITATION TO TAKEOFF ON RWY 16 WITH A PWK #1 DEPARTURE. FLT 839 TOOK OFF FM RWY 32R AT O'HARE & BGN A RGT TURN TO 020 DEG, CLBG TO 5000'. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, THE CITATION DEPD RWY 16 AT PWK & BGN A RGT TURN WHILE CLBG TO 3000'. THE 2 ACFT CONVERGED NRLY HEAD-ON & PASSED CLOSE TO EACH OTR. FLT 839 ESTD THEY PASSED WITH APRX 500' SEPN, THE CITATION CREW ESTD 100' SEPN. BOTH FLTS WERE IN CTC WITH TRACON; FLT 839 WAS IN CTC WITH THE EAST DEP CTLR (EC); THE CITATION CREW WERE IN CTC WITH NC. THE 2 CTLRS WERE WORKING SIDE-BY-SIDE, SHARING THE SAME RADAR SCOPE. THERE WAS AN AVAILABLE LIGHT TO WARN OF ACFT DEPG PWK, BUT IT WAS NOT BEING USED. WRITTEN PROCEDURES FOR USE OF THE LIGHT WERE NOT SPECIFIC. TRAFFIC WAS DESCRIBED AS MODERATE TO BUSY.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Aircraft involved
| Aircraft | Registration | Operator | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boeing 727-233 727-233 | CGYNE | - | - |
| Cessna 650 650 | N20AT | - | - |
Other Boeing 727 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Jun 1987 | Boeing 727-251 | Casper, Wyoming, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 16 Sep 1987 | Boeing 727 | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | Eastern Airlines, Inc. | No injuries | - |
| 28 Oct 1987 | Boeing 727-214 | St Croix | Pan American World Airways | No injuries | - |
| 6 Jan 1987 | Boeing 727-223 | Tampa, Florida, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 27 Dec 1987 | Boeing 727-231 | Miami, Florida, United States | Trans World Airlines | No injuries | - |
| 13 Mar 1987 | Boeing 727-247 | Calgary, Canada | Western Airlines | No injuries | - |
Other accidents in this area
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 1987 | Cessna T210N | Sugar Grove, Illinois, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 6 Nov 1987 | Cessna 172P | Danville, Illinois, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 6 Apr 1987 | Cessna 150H | Tinley Park, Illinois, United States | Alan D. Gjerbe | No injuries | - |
| 9 Apr 1987 | Cessna 150M | Pontiac, Illinois, United States | J. Meyer | No injuries | - |
| 10 Nov 1987 | Piper PA-30B | Decatur, Illinois, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 21 Nov 1987 | Cessna 337 | Kankakee, Illinois, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |