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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 .
Airplane gliding occurs when all the engines of an aircraft shut down, but the wings are still functional and can be used for a controlled descent. This is a very rare condition in multi-engine airliners, [1] though it is the obvious result when a single-engine airplane experiences engine failure.
Uncontained engine failures occur when parts within an aircraft's engine separate and break free. Pages in category "Airliner accidents and incidents involving uncontained engine failure" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
United is the only U.S. airline with Boeing 777s powered by the engine that failed Saturday. Travelers still might be booked on another Boeing 777.
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 ...
Qantas Flight 32 – an Airbus A380 from London to Sydney with a fuel stopover in Singapore suffered a catastrophic engine failure over Indonesia. The engine exploded and parts of it were strewn over the Indonesian Island of Batam. Qantas Flight 32 was forced to make an emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport. Everyone on board survived.
A Qantas flight headed to Brisbane had to make an emergency landing at Sydney Airport after a suspected engine failure. Qantas flight QF520 made a safe landing just after 1 p.m. local time, a ...
JetBlue Flight 292 making an emergency landing in September 2005 with its nose landing gear turned sideways.. This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents and all kinds of incidents, major or minor, by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.