Boeing 747-228F N752SA

Summary

On 24 December 2006 at about 01:45 local time, a Boeing 747-228F registered N752SA was involved in an accident near Anchorage, Alaska, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

24 December 2006 at 01:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Nearest airport

Ted Stevens Anchorage Internat (ANC)

Coordinates

61.1744, -149.9964

Aircraft

Boeing 747-228F

Registration

N752SA

Category

Airplane

Engines

4

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Anchorage → Dallas

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

IMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

ANC07LA008

Nobody was injured.

The failure of the deicing truck crew to maintain sufficient distance from the parked airplane during deicing, which resulted in a collision and substantial damage to the airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight crew departed on an instrument flight rules (IFR) non-scheduled domestic cargo flight under Title 14, CFR Part 121. When the cabin failed to pressurize during departure, the airplane returned to the airport. An FAA inspector who examined the airplane reported that maintenance personnel found a penetrating gouge in the right lower portion of the fuselage between the wing and tail, near the cargo door. The inspector indicated that the gouge was 18 inches long, 1 to 2 inches wide, with other, shallower surface skin damage about 3 feet long, and that the damage was consistent with the size and shape of the counter-balance weight on the truck used to deice the airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.