# NTSB Accident LAX99FA315
> **Boeing 757-2S7** · 1999-09-20 · AGUA CALIENTE, AZ, USA · SERS
## Event
- **NTSB number:** LAX99FA315
- **Event ID:** 20001212X19792
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 1999-09-20
- **Location:** AGUA CALIENTE, AZ, USA
- **Coordinates:** 32.940097, -113.340454
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** SERS
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 2
- **Minor:** 2
- **Uninjured:** 173
- **Total aboard:** 177
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Boeing
- **Model:** 757-2S7
- **Registration:** N904AW
- **FAR Part:** 121
- **Engines:** 2
- **Damage:** —
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** IMC
## Probable cause

the systemic failure of the airline's maintenance department to identify and correct the long standing history of intermittent faults, nuisance warnings, and erratic behavior in this airplane's GPWS system.  Also causal is the airline's failure to perform the service bulletins and service letter upgrades to the system, which would have eliminated or greatly reduced the likelihood of this particular nuisance warning, a condition that was identified and corrected by the manufacturers 11 years prior to the accident, and was the subject of one or more of the SB/SL upgrades.

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