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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration plans to convene a review board in the coming weeks to consider safety concerns about engines on Boeing 737 MAX airplanes after two bird ...
An American Airlines flight departing New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday evening had to divert to nearby John F. Kennedy International shortly after takeoff after a reported bird strike ...
An American Airlines plane lands at La Guardia International Airport one day after a global IT outage, in New York, on July 20, 2024. Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global ...
The engine failure resulted in an in-flight engine fire, extensive damage to the engine nacelle, and minor damage to the fuselage. [11] Passengers also recorded video of the engine nacelle damage and in-flight fire and posted these to social media. The failed engine was a Pratt & Whitney (P&W) model PW4077 turbofan. [12]
The flight took off at about 9:24 p.m. on 20 February 2005. When the aircraft, a four-engine Boeing 747-436, was around 300 feet (91 m) into the air, flames burst out of its number 2 engine, a result of engine surge. The pilots shut the engine down. Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan.
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 .
Qantas flight QF520 had to make an emergency landing in Sydney after a suspected engine failure. The plane was a Boeing 737-800, per the flight tracking websites Flightradar24 and FlightAware.
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.