Incident · 1996-12-30

What the record says

Event date

1996-12-30

Event type

Incident

Highest injury level

No injuries

Aircraft

Douglas DC8-62 (N804AX)

Operating rule

Part 121

Operator

operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

The failure of the captain to center the rudder and close all engine throttles during an aborted takeoff resulting in an uncontrolled turn to the right due to nose wheel steering through the rudder pedals and asymmetric engine thrust. A factor in the incident was failure of operator maintenance personnel to properly service the nose landing gear strut resulting in an over extended strut and the flight crews loss of directional control to the left during takeoff requiring them to abort the takeoff.

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.