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Date: | Sunday 19 April 1970 |
Time: | 05:45 |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62 |
Owner/operator: | Scandinavian Airlines System - SAS |
Registration: | SE-DBE |
MSN: | 45823/279 |
Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 65 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) -
Italy
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF) |
Destination airport: | Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
Narrative:The no. 1 engine suffered a uncontained failure 50 m into the takeoff roll. Debris bounced off the runway against the wing and ruptured the center fuel tank. The leaking fuel caught fire.
CAUSE: Failure of no. 1 engine first stage fan disk, causing a leak in the no. 2 fuel tank.
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photo (c) anon.; Roma-Fiumicino Airport (FCO/LIRF); 19 April 1970
photo (c) SAS; Long Beach Airport, CA (LGB/KLGB); 03 April 1967
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