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August 18, 1973 - Aeroflot Flight 13, an Antonov An-24B operated by Aeroflot crashes on takeoff due to engine failure, killing 56. December 5, 1995 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 – Shortly after taking off from Nakhchivan Airport, the Tupolev Tu-134's no. 1 engine failed. The pilots seemed to misread it as a failure on engine no 2.
On March 8, a 38-year-old man, a 38-year-old woman and a 2-year-old girl from Santa Rosa were on a plane in Whitethorn when its engine lost power five minutes after takeoff, according to a news ...
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced a cargo door failure in flight on February 24, 1989, after its stopover at Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. The resulting explosive decompression blew out several rows of seats, killing 9 passengers. [82] Transair Flight 810 ditches off the coast of Oahu after a double engine failure. Both crew ...
The ferry flight suffered dual-engine failure at high altitude and a subsequent crash caused by the crew's reckless flying. August 13, 2004 1 1 1 Air Tahoma Flight 185: Florence: Kentucky: Convair CV-580: Mismanagement of fuel tanks caused a dual-engine flameout, and the cargo aircraft then crashed during approach, killing the first officer ...
This category lists multi-engine passenger airline accidents involving loss of all engines in flight and subsequent gliding flight. Causes of these rare situations have included fuel exhaustion or starvation , multiple bird strikes , volcanic ash , extreme weather and hijacking .
Engine failure: Flight 773 [2] San Ramon, California: 7 May 1964: Fairchild F-27A: Reno–Stockton–San Francisco: Mass murder/suicide Pacific Air Transport; Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause NC5340: Techachapi Mountains: 18 November 1930: Boeing 40B-4A: Burbank–Oakland: CFIT: NC5390: La Tuna Canyon near Burbank: 5 ...
Poor CRM, triple engine failure Imperial Airways; Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause G-EBBX: Purley: 24 December 1924: de Havilland DH.34: Croydon–Paris: Undetermined G-EMBS Prince Henry: English Channel: 21 October 1926: Handley Page W.10: Croydon–Paris: Engine failure, water ditching G-EBLB: Purley, Surrey: 13 July ...
Shortly after 4 p.m. local time, "a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion belonging to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing experienced an engine fire in-flight," Estillore said.