page_title: Delta Air Lines Flight 1086
section_title: Aircraft and crew
hierarchical_section_title: Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 / Aircraft and crew
caption_attribution_description: English: Delta Air Lines' N909DL, photographed in January 2015 on a foggy and wet Monday morning in Atlanta. This aircraft skidded off the end of the runway at La Guardia on March 5th, 2015 as Delta Flight 1086.
context_page_description: Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 was a scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic passenger flight between Atlanta and New York's LaGuardia Airport. On March 5, 2015, the McDonnell Douglas MD-88 aircraft veered off the runway shortly after landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The plane ran up the seawall berm and struck the perimeter fence, sliding along it for approximately 940 feet before coming to rest with the nose of the aircraft hanging over the berm above Flushing Bay. There were no fatalities, although 24 people suffered minor injuries. The aircraft was seriously damaged and written off.
  The final report by the NTSB found the probable cause of the accident was the pilot's "inability to maintain directional control of the airplane due to his application of excessive reverse thrust, which degraded the effectiveness of the rudder in controlling the airplane’s heading."
context_section_description: The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, registration number N909DL, serial number 49540, manufactured in July 1987 and delivered new to Delta on December 30, 1987. It had accumulated 71,196 total flight hours and 54,865 total flight cycles prior to the accident. It was owned and operated by Delta ever since the aircraft was put into airline service.
  Regularly scheduled 600-flight hour, 2200-flight hour, and 760-day maintenance checks were completed in the six months prior to the accident, all with no discrepancies. The aircraft's last major maintenance check was on September 22, 2014, in Jacksonville, Florida and included, among other things, tests of the autobrake, anti-skid and auto-spoiler systems. The aircraft's last overnight service check was completed March 2, 2015 in Tampa, Florida.
  The 56-year-old captain was a former United States Air Force pilot, who had joined Delta in August 1989. He had 15,200 flight hours, including 11,000 hours on the MD-88 and MD-90. 
  The 46-year-old first officer had been with Delta since 2007 and had logged 11,000 flight hours, with 3,000 of them on the MD-88 and MD-90. Members of the flight crew were not publicly identified.
caption: N909DL, the MD-88 involved in the accident, photographed in January 2015, two months before the accident
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