TACA Flight 110

A TACA Boeing 737-300 similar to the affected machine.

TACA International Airlines Flight 110 was the flight number of a line of flight of the TACA between Belize City Philip SW Goldson International Airport, and the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, United States. Due to weather- related failure of both engines, the pilots had to make an emergency landing on a grassy embankment in New Orleans. The dike belonged to the Michoud grounds of NASA.

Boeing engineers and the pilots decided to start the machine from the dyke off after an engine change them instead with a barge to get to a repair shop. On the Louis Armstrong airport then the other repairs were done.

The course of the accident

The Boeing 737-300 was with the ID N75356 May 24, 1988 on the way from Belize to New Orleans. There were 38 passengers and 7 crew members on board. During the descent from 35,000 ft (approx. 10,700 m) for landing in New Orleans got the plane in a heavy thunderstorm with heavy rain and hail. At an altitude of 16,500 ft ( 5.000 m) fell from both engines. The crew was able to maintain the emergency power supply using the auxiliary power unit. Original plans to carry out an emergency landing could be avoided. The pilot discovered a suitable for landing grass area between the Intracoastal Waterway and a narrow trench 30 ° 0 ' 43 "N, 89 ° 55 ' 11 " W30.011882 - 89.919641. As it turned out later, this had a length of 1850 m. All the passengers were able to leave the plane after landing on the emergency slides.

Cause

The investigations of the U.S. air accident investigation authority NTSB revealed that an engine failure was caused by the storm with hail, although the limits for the intake of water were not exceeded. The plane had only minor hail damage, the second engine was damaged by overheating when trying to restart.

Other incidents involving failure of all engines

Today's use

The aircraft was later sold and now flies for Southwest Airlines.