N927DA

On July 06, 1996, a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-88 (N927DA) was involved in an accident near Pensacola, FL. The accident resulted in 2 fatal injuries, 2 serious injuries, 3 minor injuries, with 137 people uninjured out of 144 aboard. The aircraft sustained substantial damage.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause of this accident to be: The fracture of the left engine's front compressor fan hub, which resulted from the failure of Delta Air Lines' fluorescent penetrant inspection process to detect a detectable fatigue crack initiating from an area of altered microstructure that was created during the drilling process by Volvo for Pratt & Whitney and that went undetected at the time of manufacture. Contributing to the accident was the lack of sufficient redundancy in the in-service inspection program. (NTSB Report AAR-98/01).

On July 6, 1996, Delta Airlines flight 1288, an MD-88, N927DA, experienced an uncontained failure of the left engine during the beginning of the takeoff roll. The flightcrew stopped the airplane about 1400 feet down the takeoff runway. On board the airplane were 137 passengers, 2 flightcrew members, 3 cabincrew, and 2 non-revenue Delta employees occupying the cockpit and aft jumpseats. Engine parts entered the left side of the aft cabin resulting in 2 passengers sustaining fatal injuries and 2 sustained major injuries. Three other passengers received minor injuries during the evacuation. The captain stopped the evacuation from the emergency exits, and an airstair was brought to the airplane to evacuate the remaining passengers and the crew.

This accident is documented in NTSB report DCA96MA068. AviatorDB cross-references NTSB investigation data with FAA registry records to provide comprehensive safety information for aircraft N927DA.