Accident · 2002-07-26

NTSB case DCA02MA054 · Boeing 727-232 · Part 121

What the record says

Event date: 2002-07-26
Event type: Accident
Highest injury level: Serious injury
Aircraft: Boeing 727-232 (N497FE)
Operating rule: Part 121
Operator: operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The captain's and first officer's failure to establish and maintain a proper glidepath during the night visual approach to landing. Contributing to the accident was a combination of the captain's and first officer's fatigue, the captain's and first officer's failure to adhere to company flight procedures, the captain's and flight engineer's failure to monitor the approach, and the first officer's color vision deficiency.

Source: NTSB case DCA02MA054

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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