ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329375
Date: | Monday 7 June 1976 |
Time: | |
Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 |
Owner/operator: | Swissair |
Registration: | HB-IHH |
MSN: | 46582/187 |
Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 139 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The DC-10 was speeding down the runway when a tyre on the right hand main gear burst, followed by another tyre.
The rims of both wheels contacted the runway and debris was ingested by the no. 3 engine. This engine caught fire. The crew then aborted the takeoff and the aircraft came to rest 1000 m short of the runway end. The engine was destroyed and airframe substantially damaged.
Sources:
World Aircraft Accident Summary - CAP 479
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