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He had 6,000 flight hours, including 440 hours on the Boeing 747. [9]: 6 [10] [11] [12] The first officer was 33-year-old Jamie Lee Brokaw, who had worked for the airline since 2009 and had 1,100 flight hours, with 209 of them on the Boeing 747. [9]: 10 The relief crew consisted of captain Jeremy Lipka, 37, and first officer Rinku Summan, 32.
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 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.
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 ...
Kalitta Air Flight 207 (K4207/CKS207) was a scheduled cargo flight between John F. Kennedy Airport to Bahrain International Airport with a technical stopover at Brussels. [1] [2] On May 25, 2008, the Boeing 747-200 suffered a bird strike and overran runway 20 (later renumbered to 19 [3]) during takeoff at Brussels Airport, causing the aircraft to split into three large pieces.
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.On February 24, 1989, the Boeing 747-122 serving the flight experienced a cargo-door failure in flight shortly after leaving Honolulu.
The incident, which happened shortly after take off from New York’s JKF airport, forced the Boeing 747 to turn back from Boston. The flight, operated by specialist charter airline Air Atlanta ...
The crew aborted take-off, but the aircraft was unable to stop before it overran the runway and broke up, with minor injuries. [46] On July 7, 2008, Centurion Air Cargo Flight 164, a 747-200F, crashed into a farm field near the small village of Madrid, Colombia, shortly after take-off from El Dorado International Airport. The crew had reported ...