Accident · 1997-04-18
What the record says
- Event date
- 1997-04-18
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Serious injury
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737-3S3 (N313AW)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- AMERICA WEST AIRLINES Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- AMERICA WEST AIRLINES
Probable cause
inadequate service provided by the TRACON controller, by issuing a radar vector to the Boeing 737 flight, which resulted in inadequate separation from a Beech 99 that the controller had just terminated from radar service; and failure of the controller to provide adequate traffic/safety advisories to the Boeing 737 crew. Additional causes were the delayed initiation of a TCAS evasive maneuver by the first officer (copilot) of the Boeing 737, and failure of the Boeing 737 Captain to adequately supervise the response of the first officer to the TCAS resolution advisory. Inadequate visual lookout by the Beech 99 pilot was a related factor.
Source: NTSB case LAX97FA164Flight 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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