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On 15 December 1989, KLM Flight 867, ... the ash caused more than US$80 million in damage to the aircraft, requiring all four engines to be replaced, ...
In 1989, KLM Flight 867 was a flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo via Anchorage. On descent into Anchorage, the aircraft was descending through 24,000 feet (7,300 m) and the 747-400 encountered the ash cloud from Mount Redoubt and all four engines failed. At 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the two left engines restarted and at 11,000 feet (3,400 m), the two ...
[2] [3] The accident occurred at 5:06 pm WET (UTC +0) in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run, colliding with the right side of Pan Am Flight 1736 still on the runway. The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the Pan Am plane, with only 61 survivors in ...
All four engines of a KLM Boeing 747-400 operating KLM Flight 867 with 245 people on board, shut down when the plane flies through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Redoubt during its descent to Anchorage International Airport. After descending more than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) without power, the crew successfully restart the engines and the plane ...
The plane was flying over paradise, carrying 95 people on a short jaunt from Hilo to Honolulu in Hawaii, when all hell broke loose in an instant on the afternoon of 28 April 1988.
15 December 1989: Flight 867, operated by Boeing 747-406 City of Calgary, suffered failure of all four engines after it flew through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Redoubt en route to Tokyo from Amsterdam. While descending the crew were able to restart the engines and the aircraft performed an emergency landing at Anchorage with no casualties ...
A KLM plane U-turned over the Atlantic Ocean, leaving passengers with a four-hour flight to nowhere. The Boeing 777 left Amsterdam for Paramaribo, the capital of the small South American nation of ...
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 .