TACA Flight 110
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TACA Flight 110 was a scheduled international airline flight operated by TACA International Airlines, traveling from San Salvador to New Orleans, with a stopover in Belize City. On May 24, 1988, the flight encountered severe thunderstorm activity on its final approach to New Orleans International Airport. As a result, the brand new Boeing 737-300 suffered flameout in both engines while descending through a severe thunderstorm, but the pilots made a successful emergency landing on a grass levee adjacent to NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, with no one aboard sustaining more than a few minor injuries, and with only minor hail damage to the intact aircraft. Following an on-site engine replacement, the jetliner took off from Saturn Boulevard, a road which had previously been an aircraft runway at Michoud. The aircraft was subsequently repaired and returned to service until it finally retired in 2016.[1]
Accident | |
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Date | May 24, 1988 (1988-05-24) |
Summary | Emergency landing after dual engine flameout due to water ingestion in severe thunderstorm |
Site | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 30°00′37″N 89°55′38″W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 737-3T0 |
Operator | TACA International Airlines |
IATA flight No. | TA110 |
ICAO flight No. | TAI110 |
Call sign | TACA 110 |
Registration | N75356 |
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Stopover | |
Destination |
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Occupants | 45 |
Passengers | 38 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Injuries | 1 |
Survivors | 45 (all) |