Accidents
- 22 August 1985 – British Airtours Flight 28M - an engine failed during take-off from Manchester Airport, the fire spreading into the cabin, resulting in 55 fatalities aboard the Boeing 737-236 Advanced.
- 21 December 1991 - Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 - The engines on an MD-81 ingested wing ice during takeoff causing engine damage that led to a total loss of thrust on both engines. The aircraft crashed in a forest clearing with no fatalities.
- 6 July 1996, An engine explosion happened on an MD-88, Delta Air Lines Flight 1288, just prior to take-off at Pensacola, Florida, USA, with two fatalities.
- 5 September 2005, a Boeing 737-200 operated by Mandala Airlines crashed in Medan as Mandala Airlines Flight 091 with 96 passengers, five crew and 49 on the ground were killed. Sixteen passengers survived. The engine flamed out and lost power.
- 15 April 2008, a DC9-51 operated by Hewa Bora Airways crashed and burned at Goma following an engine fire, with 40 fatalities.
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)