Slip-n'-Slide

June 2006
Colombia

Tradewinds International Airlines' Boeing 747-200F, a cargo flight, suffers an engine failure during takeoff. Ask any pilot: takeoff could be one of the best or worst times to lose an engine, depending on your position relative the runway from which you've taken off. Luckily for this 747, the failure occurred before the rotation (when the nose is lifted up), so the takeoff was aborted. Unfortunately, the runway was just a tad wet, causing the plane to basically slide off the end of the runway.

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Tags:

• aircraft
• airplane
• crash
• accident
• commercial
• takeoff
• boeing
• 747

[terryploesch]

you should see the pilot do doughnuts on the runway!

[JPChabert]

Well if that was a joke you've got a moronic sense of humor my friend.

At least you could have added something like ;o) cos your initial sentence seems childlish rather than ironic. Anyway..

[LaminaDieWills]

@MrScuba247 ahh no youre right, they must of gone past V1 speeds. plus i bet the rain didnt help either.

[LaminaDieWills]

@MrScuba247 Did it harm the hydraulics or electrics or something when it blew?, because the emergency stop procedure is everything on to stop asap

It just seemed like they had trouble stopping it with the brakes. Any ideas apart from the 1st engine blow out?

[MrScuba247]

@LaminaDieWills It was an aborted takeoff. I worked for this company when it went off the runway. Lost the #1 engine.

[TheFrancois1]

poor plane :p

[MysticDMBherb]

That would be so fun!

[dolarsify]

This accident was in Medellin - Colombia

[meringandan]

Another one for the boneyard

[nkx1]

LOL nice one

[LaminaDieWills]

did anyone notice at the start of the video...that even if this was an aborted takeoff, the pilot had NO reversers on until the very last minute ....by that time it was too late.

crazy!!

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