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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.
Photographs of the test were later involved in a hoax, which supposedly showed an Air Canada Boeing 747 with its back half exploding on landing. The photo was, however, an edit of an Air Canada Boeing 747 landing normally with the photo of the explosion test stitched onto the back of the aircraft. [3]
December 24, 2006 - Lion Air Flight 792, a Boeing 737-400 operated by Lion Air lands hard causing the landing gear to collapse. Everyone survives. Everyone survives. January 1, 2007 - Adam Air Flight 574 , a Boeing 737-4Q8 operated by Adam Air breaks up in mid-air and crashes into the sea due to pilot error, killing all 102 on board.
Boeing 747: Corrosion in pylon fuse pin leading to metal fatigue 4 on board, 39 on ground Engine No.3 separated from its pylon which caused the adjacent engine No.4 to also fall off, taking the slats with them; stall and crash on attempted landing 1996-07-17 TWA Flight 800: Moriches Inlet, near East Moriches, New York Boeing 747: Fuel tank ...
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British Airways Flight 009, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or as the Jakarta incident, [1] was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland, with stops in Bombay, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Melbourne.
Aircraft aborted first landing attempt due to possible landing-gear failure. Pilot focused on landing gear problem, neglected crew's warning of lack of fuel. Plane ran out of fuel, glided several miles before crashing within 10 miles of airport. 10: 189 12 April 1979 Aeroflot Flight 3582: Tupolev Tu-154B Chimkent, Kazakhstan
TWA Flight 800, was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris.