Incident · 1997-08-24
What the record says
- Event date
- 1997-08-24
- Event type
- Incident
- Highest injury level
- No injuries
- Aircraft
- Airbus Industrie A300 B4-203 (N862PA)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, IN Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, IN
Probable cause
Separation of the landing gear tire tread and subsequent ingestion of the tread into the intake of the engine.
Source: NTSB case LAX97IA300Flight 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.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.