Engine failure

Events

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  24 August 2001

  Air Transat Flight 236

  • Airbus A330
  • 306 people on board

  Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus A330 flying from Toronto to Lisbon with 306 people on board, ran out of fuel over the Atlantic on 24 August 2001 after a fuel line in its right engine split.

  2 videos

  • WWonder
  • ACAir Crash Investigation
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  19 July 1989

  United Airlines Flight 232

  • McDonnell Douglas DC-10
  • 112 people who died

  United Airlines Flight 232 carried 285 passengers and 11 crew. When the tail engine failed, debris cut the lines of all three hydraulic systems that moved the DC-10's flight controls.

  3 videos

  • MPMentour Pilot
  • FHFascinating Horror
  • KKCCI
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  9 August 1978

  Olympic Airways Flight 411

  • Boeing 747
  • 418 people on board

  An engine failed as Olympic Airways Flight 411, a fully loaded Boeing 747 bound for New York, lifted off from Athens on 9 August 1978, and the jet barely climbed as it crossed the city at rooftop height.

  1 video

  • GDGreen Dot Aviation