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Boeing 737 passenger jet is forced to make emergency landing after 'micro-explosions' cause both engines to catch fire during take-off
2023-12-09
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The plane with 175 passengers was flying from Novosibirsk to Moscow

  • The fires started as the plane was on the runway taking off, passengers said
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Posted by:Skidmark

#3   Russian passengers pray and children scream in terror as plane suffers sudden depressurisation and oxygen masks drop in country's third flight horror in three days
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-09 11:16  

#2  Engines surging fuel on takeoff, and the brakes caught fire when landing.
I would say park that puppy until maintenance can fix everything.
(I realize aircraft parts are sanctioned. So 'sell' it to a 'Chinese' airline. They can get the parts.)
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-12-09 09:45  

#1  Maintenance, bad fuel or just fatigue?

Russian plane bursts into flames after 'powerful explosion' minutes after takeoff
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-08 11:00  

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