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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX88LA239

1988-06-29 HEALDSBURG, California, United States Airport · 031 Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N33284

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-824

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

CFM INTL. CFM56 SERIES (2200 hp)

Seats / Engines

149 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20040326

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3A0CA

Registrant of record

UMB BANK NA TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Factual narrative

JUST AFTER TAKEOFF THE ENGINE LOST POWER. A FORCED LANDING WAS MADE IN A FIELD WHERE THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH ROUGH TERRAIN. INSPECTION OF THE ENGINE REVEALED EVIDENCE OF CORROSION IN THE MAIN FUEL SUMP BOWL AND ON THE FUEL INJECTION THROTTLE BODY FUEL SCREEN. THE MAIN FUEL SUMP BOWL SCREEN WAS DAMAGED AND INSTALLED UPSIDE DOWN. THERE WERE NO OTHER NOTED MECHANICAL FAILURES OR MALFUNCTIONS. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1988_LAX88LA239.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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