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Engine falls off 747
CHICAGO (AP) A cargo plane bound for New York's Kennedy International Airport landed safely at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after losing an engine somewhere over Michigan. The Kalitta Air jet took off from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago late Wednesday. It later reported mechanical problems with one of its engines, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman in Chicago said. The Boeing 747-R was able to fly but was diverted as a safety precaution to Detroit, where it landed without incident, FAA officials said. No one was injured. After the landing, airline personnel discovered the engine was completely gone, FAA officials said. Michigan authorities searched Thursday for the engine, which may have fallen into Lake Michigan, the FAA said. The FAA will investigate the incident, but the results of an investigation could take weeks, the FAA said. |
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:ok: to that crew...I hope we find out more about it all...kudos again to that crew.
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this incident is almost 2 years old
happened on 20th october 2004 ship N709CK involved, went into service again about 3 weeks later |
This is like "a deja vu all over again", didn't this happen 20 Oct 2004, almost two years ago??
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Checked out the site where that link was housed...:hmm:
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:} Sorry webmaster
One of my mates sent it to me in an email and I thought it was new. |
Did they ever find the engine ?
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Same aircraft, 1997: :eek: (although from the blurb on Airliners it appears it was intended that time):
http://www.airliners.net/photoLink.inc?id=0224038 <SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript' SRC='http://www.airliners.net/photoLink.inc?id=0224038' TYPE='text/javascript'></SCRIPT> - trying to post the thumbnail and if that doesn't work, http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0224038/M |
Nowadays the hardware that travels Kalitta and subsequently falls out of the sky is of a different calibre...
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WOW interesting tech log entry!
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Sunfish.....
.....someone else to add to your "no fly list"
B73 |
Just another B defect !!:}
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london wasp
Bet that was a nice little earner! Long time since I had a pylon off a 747.
We don't even get a keel beam repair these day.....someone taught the buggers how to land properly! B73. |
This story is from October TWO YEARS AGO!
Why is it being reportes as though it has just happened? |
so that's where in engine came from in donnie darko :}
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Originally Posted by theresalwaysone
WOW interesting tech log entry!
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I thought that Boeing fixed the pylon issue after the Amsterdam disaster.
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Originally Posted by Packsonflight
I thought that Boeing fixed the pylon issue after the Amsterdam disaster.
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There have been a number of engines falling off the 747 over the years. If the inboard, it has tended to take the outboard with it. Some have led to the loss of the aircraft, others (as here) manage to get away with it.
Notable is that if I am not mistaken it always seems to have happened to freighter aircraft. Yet they make up probably only 5% of the 747 fleet movements. Their max gross weight is obviously the same and many pax 747s go out up to gross anyway. I winder why this problem afflicts freighters. |
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