Accident · 1999-09-02
What the record says
- Event date
- 1999-09-02
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Serious injury
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737-322 (N371UA)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC. Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- UNITED AIRLINES, INC.
Probable cause
The flight's encounter with wake vortices from a preceding heavy aircraft.
Source: NTSB case LAX99LA291Flight 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.