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On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
Video of a 747 in flight with smoke trailing from one engine was also posted to Twitter. Falling debris damaged parked cars, [22] and press accounts of the incident included a widely circulated photo of the destruction showing what appears to be a part of an engine blade wedged in the roof of a car like a knife stuck in a block of butter. [23]
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-48EF registered as HL7604, the 1370th 747 built. It first flew on 15 February 2006, and was delivered to Asiana Airlines a week later. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had flown more than 26,300 flight hours and 4799 takeoff/landing cycles.
On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff. The Boeing 747-400 continued to fly across the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean with its three remaining engines despite air traffic controllers expecting the pilots to perform the emergency ...
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National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400BCF, stalled and crashed just after takeoff from Bagram Airfield after its cargo broke loose, killing all seven crewmembers. 14 August UPS Airlines Flight 1354, an Airbus A300F4-600R, crashed short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing the two pilots.
SX-OAA, named Olympic Zeus, was an Olympic Boeing 747-200. [1] [3] The 747-200 model featured more powerful engines and a higher maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) than the previous 747-100 model. [10] One of the principal technologies that enabled an aircraft as large as the 747 to takeoff was the high-bypass turbofan engine. [11]
In May 2002, 17 years after Flight 123's crash and 22 years after the accident aircraft's repair, China Airlines Flight 611 from Taipei to Hong Kong with 225 people on board crashed with no survivors when it broke up while cruising at around 35,000 feet. Like Flight 123, a doubler plate was not installed based upon Boeing standards.