American Airlines Flight 102
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | |
Passengers | 189 |
---|---|
Crew | 13 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Injuries | 40 |
Survivors | 202 |
American Airlines Flight 102 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by a
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to use proper directional control technique during the landing roll.[1]
Aircraft and crew
Aircraft
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The aircraft involved in the incident was a
Flight crew
The aircraft had a flight crew of three. The captain, 59-year-old Kenneth Kruslyak, had a total of 12,562 flight hours, 555 of which were in the DC-10. He was employed by American Airlines on August 1, 1966, and was designated as a captain in the DC-10 in November 1991. Kruslyak held an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate and was type rated in the DC-10, Boeing 727, and DC-9, with a commercial type rating in the Boeing 377.[1]: 24 The first officer, 40-year-old David Harrell, had 4,454 flight hours with American Airlines, 554 of which were in the DC-10. The flight engineer, 60-year-old Francis Roggenbuck, held a current Flight Engineer certificate. He was employed by American Airlines in October 1955. Roggenbuck had a total of 20,000 flight hours, all of which were as a flight engineer, and 4,800 hours of which were in the DC-10.[1]: 24–25 [5]
Cabin crew and passengers
The aircraft was carrying ten cabin crew and 189 passengers.[6][7]
Crash
As the aircraft landed, it began to weathervane and departed the right side of runway 17L.[a] The aircraft dug into deep mud, collapsing the nose landing gear, and damaging the left engine and the left wing. A small fire was quickly extinguished by firefighters who arrived from a nearby airport fire station. The aircraft came to rest along an adjacent taxiway and was steeply tilted to one side, causing some evacuation slides to deploy improperly; during the ensuing emergency evacuation, two passengers fell from the slides, suffering serious injuries. Three crew and 35 passengers suffered minor injuries in the crash and emergency evacuation.[6][7]
Investigation
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The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the cause of the accident was:[1]
At the time flight AA102 landed at DFW Airport, it was raining and there were numerous thunderstorms in the area. Shortly after touchdown on runway 17L, the pilot lost directional control when the airplane began to weathervane and the captain failed to use sufficient rudder control to regain the proper ground track. The airplane eventually departed the right side of the runway. At the time of landing the wind (a cross wind) was blowing at 15 knots with gusts approximately 5 knots above the steady wind speed.
Aftermath
N139AA was damaged beyond repair and was written off. American Airlines continues to use flight number 102 on the same route from Honolulu to DFW using a
See also
References
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b c d "Runway Departure Following Landing, American Airlines Flight 102, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, N139AA, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, April 14, 1993" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. 1994-02-14. NTSB/AAR-94/01. Retrieved 2022-02-25. - Copy at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University.
- ^ "ASN Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on January 29, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
- ^ "N139AA American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ^ "Crash of a Douglas DC-10-30 in Dallas". www.baaa-acro.com. Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ a b "NTSB Aviation Accident Final Report DCA93MA040". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ a b St. Pierre, Nancy; Box, Terry; Lincoln Michel, Karen; Freedenthal, Stacey (April 15, 1993). "30 Hurt After Jet Slides Off Runway – Passengers Injured During Exit on Escape Chutes". The Dallas Morning News. Dallas, Texas. Retrieved May 31, 2012.