Incident · 1998-05-10

NTSB case LAX98IA158 · North American NA265-65 · Part 91

What the record says

Event date: 1998-05-10
Event type: Incident
Highest injury level: No injuries
Aircraft: North American NA265-65 (N651MK)
Operating rule: Part 91
Operator: operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

the fatigue failure and uncontained separation of the high pressure impeller in the No. 2 engine during the takeoff roll. While the impeller showed evidence of a subsurface fatigue origin, the percipient cause of the separation was not definitively determined.

Source: NTSB case LAX98IA158

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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