Boeing 737-200 crash, Dec 30, 1989, Tucson
Boeing 737-200 accident on December 30, 1989 near Tucson, Arizona, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Maintenance personnel failed to detect an...
- Date: December 30, 1989
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-200
- Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Maintenance personnel failed to detect an electrical wire that had chafed against a hydraulic line during a recent C-check, causing arcing, a hydraulic leak and a fire.
The America West Boeing 737-204 N198AW, on a scheduled flight from Phoenix to Tucson with 130 people aboard, suffered a fire in the wheel well during the approach that burned through hydraulic lines and disabled three hydraulic systems. The crew landed using the manual reversion flight control system, but the aircraft overran the runway end and its nose gear collapsed against a concrete structure. No one was killed.