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Minutes Over Māmala Bay: How a 737 Lost Its Engine
Minutes Over Māmala Bay: How a 737 Lost Its Engine
A single vertical tail fin floated in Māmala Bay at 2:30 a.m., and one man clung to it while the rest of the Boeing 737 vanished in eleven minutes - a freighter with a 45-year-old airframe and engines designed for an earlier model lost an engine during takeoff. How did corrosion inside a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A high-pressure turbine lead to a sudden failure that left two experienced pilots fighting for control?
In this episode, we describe the flight, the crew, the aircraft history, and the sequence of events from takeoff to the moment one…
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