Incident · 1999-09-09

What the record says

Event date

1999-09-09

Event type

Incident

Highest injury level

Minor injury

Aircraft

Douglas DC-9-31 (N993Z)

Operating rule

Part 121

Operator

TRANS WORLD AIRLINES Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

TRANS WORLD AIRLINES INC.

Probable cause

A preexisting crack on the left main landing gear outer cylinder housing and the first officer's failure to maintain the proper rate of descent resulting in a hard landing on touchdown, and subsequent total failure and separation of the left main landing gear on landing rollout. Contributing to the accident was the pilot-in-commands improper supervision of the first officer during the approach phase of the landing.

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.