Tag: Aircraft Structural Failure
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On This Day In 1981: Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 Disintegrated Midair Due To Severe Fuselage Corrosion, Killing All 110 Aboard
On August 22, 1981, Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 was flying from Taipei Songshan Airport to Kaohsiung in Taiwan when a Boeing 737-222 suddenly broke apart in midair. All 110 people aboard were killed. What made the disaster especially disturbing was that the same aircraft had already suffered cabin-pressure problems earlier that day —…
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The Part Whose Fracture Lead To The UPS MD11 Crash
On November 4, 2025, about 1714 eastern standard time, United Parcel Service (UPS) flight 2976, a Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) MD 11F airplane, N259UP, was destroyed after it impacted buildings and the ground shortly after takeoff from runway 17R at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, Kentucky. The 3 crewmembers aboard the airplane and 11 people on…
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