Following our look at the 748 at Stansted which did abort when airborne, a friend has sent me details of a sad fatal accident to another 748 with a similar RR Dart disintintegration which DID continue and subsequently crashed killing all on board.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada report number H90001, Quebec Air F27B Rolls Royce Dart engines, CF-QBL Flight No 255
QuebecCityAirport, 29 March 1979
The flight lasted 1min 12secs after lift off.
Fourteen passengers and three crew died in the crash.
"At time 36 seconds after brake release there was a loud bang from the right engine as it disintegrated and a severe fire developed. The aircraft was at approximately 103 kts and 40 feet above the runway.
At time 42 seconds, The captain started the engine failure/fire emergency drill.
At time 45 seconds, the tower controller who had noticed flames from the right engine advised flight 255 that the right engine was on fire and authorised them to land on any runway.
From time 50 seconds to 1 minute 05 seconds the crew attempted to raise the landing gear which never came up.
The aircraft climbed to about 120 feet above the runway elevation and started a right turn, apparently in an attempt to complete a short circuit, remain visual and execute an emergency on the airport.
At time 1 minute 14 seconds the captain called for the propeller to be feathered. Up to this point the crew did not know that the right engine had separated at the first stage impeller and the forward section of the engine along with the forward section of the engine along with the propeller and some cowling had fallen onto the runway
At time 1minute 24 seconds the No 1 fire bottle was fired and the aircraft continued in a right turn at about 100 feet above the terrain at a very low airspeed. The engine fire continued.
As the aircraft approached the College de Sacre Coeur, the angle of bank increased and the aircraft started to descend until impact.
Impact occured in a nose down, right wing low attitude at approximately 80 kts.
A fierce fire broke out and most of the fuselage forward of the wing was consumed by fire."
The Rolls Royce Dart engine had suffered an uncontained failure.
I do not presume to question or comment on events or actions except to suggest it might be worth putting into the equation for decision making?