Jackson - Dallas - Salt Lake City

On August 31, 1988 at 09:01 AM, Jackson - Dallas - Salt Lake City experienced a crash involving Boeing 727-200, operated by Delta Airlines, with the event recorded near Dallas-Fort Worth Texas.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

108 people were known to be on board, 14 fatalities were recorded, 94 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 13.0%.

Crew on board: 7, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 101, passenger fatalities: 12, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Flight DL1141 (Jackson - Dallas - Salt Lake City) left Gate 15 at 08:30 and was instructed to taxi to runway 18L. When first in line for takeoff (at 08:59) the flight was cleared for takeoff. The takeoff was uneventful until the airplane reached the rotation phase (at 154 knots, 6017 feet down the runway). As the main gear wheels left the ground, the airplane began to roll violently, causing the right wingtip to contact the runway (1033 feet after lift-off), followed by compressor surges. The plane continued and struck the ILS localizer antenna array 1000 feet past the end of runway 18L. After impacting the antenna installation, the airplane remained airborne for an additional 400 feet, then struck the ground, traversed a ground depression and slid sideways until it came to rest near the airport perimeter fence, 3200 feet from the runway end. Parts of the aircraft had separated in the slide and a fire had erupted in the right wing area, quickly engulfing the rear, right side of the airplane after it came to rest. Twelve passengers and two crew members were killed. The aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N473DA, MSN 20750, year of manufacture 1973.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 32.7488°, -97.2990°.