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The aircraft suffered mild hail damage, and its right-side (number 2) engine was damaged from overheating. [7] The landing site of TACA 110. To avoid similar problems in the future, the engine manufacturer, CFM International, modified the CFM56 engine by adding a sensor to force the combustor to continuously ignite under heavy rain or hail ...
American Airlines flight 1897 was forced to divert to El Paso after the aircraft was damaged in a heavy storm ... Passenger Plane Forced to Land After Hail Damage. Jay Bennett. June 5, 2018 at 11: ...
An Austrian Airlines airplane’s nose and cockpit windows were severely damaged by hail during a flight from Spain to Austria after encountering a thunderstorm cell, officials say.
Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama.On April 4, 1977, it executed a forced landing on Georgia State Route 381 in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm.
The most common cause of engine shutdown is fuel exhaustion or fuel starvation, but there have been other cases in aviation history of multiple engine failure due to bird strikes, flying through volcano ash, ingesting debris, and various forms of damage due to water (hail, ice or overwhelming rain).
Southern Airways Flight 242 executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977. In all, 63 of 85 passengers and crew on board were killed, as were 9 more on the ground.
On 26 October 2022, LATAM Chile Flight 1325, an Airbus A320-214 registered as CC-BAZ, was on approach to Asunción-Silvio Pettirossi International Airport when the aircraft encountered a hail storm. The aircraft lost most of its nose radome, suffered damage to its windshield and lost both engines which led to the Ram Air Turbine being deployed ...
Hail damaged the weather radar and engine oil coolers, causing oil leaks. All four engines lost power; engines one and three were shut down and engines two and four were reduced to idle. The aircraft entered a descent, but speed and load limits were exceeded in the process and the aircraft broke up and crashed at Nawabshah, Pakistan, killing ...