Incident · 1998-07-18
What the record says
- Event date
- 1998-07-18
- Event type
- Incident
- Highest injury level
- No injuries
- Aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63F (N921R)
- Operating rule
- Part 121
- Operator
- EMERY WORLDWIDE AIRLINES Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- EMERY WORLDWIDE AIRLINES
Probable cause
The flight crew's failure to perform a missed approach upon failing to attain and/or maintain proper course/runway alignment and glidepath on final approach, resulting in a high-sink-rate landing and subsequent separation of a main landing gear wheel from the aircraft. Factors contributing to the incident included: low ceiling; the first officer's failure to attain and/or maintain proper course/runway alignment and glidepath on approach; insufficiently defined company procedures for responding to deviations from a stabilized approach profile; inadequate FAA principal operations inspector approval of company operating procedures; and a worn main landing gear wheel retaining nut.
Source: NTSB case SEA98IA141Flight 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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