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Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced a contained engine failure [a] in the left CFM International CFM56 engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have a major new clue in their hunt for what caused an engine on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 to fail mid-flight. The incident ...
A preliminary examination of the failed jet engine from yesterday's Southwest incident that left one dead, showed evidence of "metal fatigue," according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Southwest Airlines has released a statement about Flight 1380, which made an emergency landing in Philadelphia and left one passenger dead on Tuesday. "The entire Southwest Airlines Family is ...
The aircraft experienced an uncontained engine failure during takeoff, with debris penetrating the fuselage and killing two passengers. May 11, 1996 110 0 0 ValuJet Flight 592: Everglades: Florida: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32: Expired oxygen generators caused a rapidly spreading fire that caused the crew to lose control, crashing into the Everglades.
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 .
Jim Hall also says it's probably too early to tell whether something like metal fatigue would appear in a routine inspection.
On August 27, 2016, the Boeing 737-7H4 [a], with 99 passengers and five crew, 12 minutes after departure from New Orleans, was climbing through 31,000 feet and heading east over the Gulf of Mexico when the aircraft's number one CFM International CFM56-7 engine suffered an engine failure. A fan blade in the engine broke due to a fatigue crack ...