ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 178444
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| Date: | Friday 7 August 2015 |
| Time: | 02:02 UTC |
| Type: |  Airbus A320-211 |
| Owner/operator: | Delta Air Lines |
| Registration: | N332NW |
| MSN: | 319 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
| Engine model: | CFMI CFM56-5A1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | near Denver, CO -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Boston-Logan International Airport, MA (BOS/KBOS) |
| Salt Lake City International Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Delta Air Lines flight 1889 from Boston, MA (BOS) to Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) diverted to Denver, CO (DEN) after sustaining substantial damage to the nose cone and windshield due to hail.
The aircraft was en route at FL340 when it entered an area of intense hail.
The crew initiated a descent at 20:16 hours local time. A safe landing was made at Denver about 20:43 hours.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this incident as follows:
The flight crew's continued flight into a closing gap between areas of thunderstorm activity and their failure to maintain the required lateral separation from the thunderstorms, which resulted in the airplane's encounter with hail and subsequent airplane damage.
Contributing to the incident were the company flight dispatcher's failure to provide complete and timely weather information to the flight crew and the Denver air route traffic controller's failure to provide significant pilot weather report information and alert the pilots of existing and worsening hazardous weather along their flight route, as required by Federal Aviation directives, both of which led to the airplane's encounter with hail.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865634165/Hail-damages-Salt-Lake-City-bound-plane-forces-emergency-landing.html
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1889/history/20150807/2130Z/KBOS/KDEN/tracklog
NTSB
Location
Images:
Wunderground.com Satellite image at 20:03
Media:
Delta flight experienced hail damage last night and was forced to make emergency landing. pic.twitter.com/CULmU8KYGa
— WNDU (@WNDU) August 8, 2015Plane makes emergency landing after hail cracks the windshield and damages nose cone: http://t.co/Vg3cujrlRr pic.twitter.com/VKWjvrNzAZ
— KGUN9 On Your Side (@kgun9) August 8, 2015Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Aug-2015 06:46 | harro | Added |
| 09-Aug-2015 07:06 | harro | Updated [Embed code, Photo, ] |
| 05-Feb-2017 12:22 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2017 10:49 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
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