Mcdonnell Douglas MD-88 accident near Pensacola, FL
On July 6, 1996, a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-88 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Pensacola, FL. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- July 6, 1996
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Aircraft
- Mcdonnell Douglas MD-88 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 2 serious, 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 30.471°N, 87.191°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X06203
Official records · DCA96MA068
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
Air traffic control records
- Operations 2 - Attachment 14-Air Traffic Control Voice Transcripts: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- Public Hearing Transcript 3/26/97 - 362 pages: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- Public Hearing Transcript 3/27/97 - 312 pages: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- Public Hearing Transcript 3/28/97 - 224 pages: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
On July 6, 1996, Delta Airlines flight 1288, an MD-88, N927DA, experienced an uncontained failure of the left engine during the beginning of the takeoff roll. The flightcrew stopped the airplane about 1400 feet down the takeoff runway. On board the airplane were 137 passengers, 2 flightcrew members, 3 cabincrew, and 2 non-revenue Delta employees occupying the cockpit and aft jumpseats. Engine parts entered the left side of the aft cabin resulting in 2 passengers sustaining fatal injuries and 2 sustained major injuries. Three other passengers received minor injuries during the evacuation. The captain stopped the evacuation from the emergency exits, and an airstair was brought to the airplane to evacuate the remaining passengers and the crew. The fan hub for the left engine was found fractured.
Probable cause
the fracture of the left engine's front compressor fan hub, which resulted from the failure of Delta Air Lines' fluorescent penetrant inspection process to detect a detectable fatigue crack initiating from an area of altered microstructure that was created during the drilling process by Volvo for Pratt & Whitney and that went undetected at the time of manufacture. Contributing to the accident was
From Wikipedia
Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 was a regularly scheduled flight from Pensacola, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia. On July 6, 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, was on takeoff roll from Runway 17 at Pensacola when it experienced an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debris from the front compressor hub of the left engine to penetrate the left aft fuselage, killing 2 passengers. The cause of the engine failure was found to have been a fault in the manufacture of the fan. The failure of the airline to spot the resulting crack in the blade was a contributing factor.
The impact killed a female passenger and her son, and seven other passengers were injured. The pilot aborted takeoff and the airplane stopped on the runway. Three other passengers sustained minor injuries during the emergency evacuation. Most of the passengers were traveling on vacation.
Text from Wikipedia, “Delta Air Lines Flight 1288”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
