| 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 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| 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) |
| Zürich-Kloten Airport (ZRH/LSZH) |
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.
Sources:
Location
Images:
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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