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Old 7th Jun 2018, 18:07
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Originally Posted by tdracer
Southern Airways DC-9 - both engines quit due to ingesting massive amounts of hail:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southe...ays_Flight_242
I thought that was more because they suffered compressor stalls but didn't (or couldn't) throttle back to let the engines recover. ISTR that ATC was pushing them to climb so they kept trying to get the engines to produce more power until the compressor blades all fell off.
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