Accident · 1996-07-08

NTSB case ATL96FA101 · Boeing 737-200 · Part 121

What the record says

Event date: 1996-07-08
Event type: Accident
Highest injury level: Serious injury
Aircraft: Boeing 737-200 (N53SW)
Operating rule: Part 121
Operator: operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

the captain's improper rejected takeoff, in that the takeoff was rejected after V1, and the flight attendants' improper use of the evacuation procedure, in that an evacuation was independently initiated without the captain's approval, and without assessing the condition and location of the fire. Factors related to the accident were: bird ingestion in the left engine near lift-off speed during the takeoff roll, and company's inadequate Crew Resource Management (CRM) training for flight attendants.

Source: NTSB case ATL96FA101

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.

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