Eastern Air Lines Flight 935
File:Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar, Eastern Air Lines JP7713944.jpg
N309EA, the aircraft involved, photographed in June 1973
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Date | 22 September 1981 |
Summary | Uncontained engine failure leading to loss of most hydraulic systems and control failures |
Site | Emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Passengers | 190 |
Crew | 11 |
Injuries (non-fatal) | 0 |
Fatalities | 0 |
Survivors | 201 |
Aircraft type | Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar |
Operator | Eastern Air Lines |
Registration | N309EA |
Flight origin | Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey, United States |
Destination | Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Eastern Air Lines Flight 935 was a scheduled commercial passenger flight operated by Eastern Air Lines. On September 22, 1981, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar jet operating the flight suffered an uncontained engine failure which led to a loss of 3 out of the 4 hydraulic systems aboard the aircraft at an altitude of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). MSL. The crew were able to land the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport with some limited use of the outboard spoilers, the inboard ailerons and the horizontal stabilizer, plus differential engine power of the remaining two engines. There were no injuries.[1]
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Aircraft
The plane was a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, registration N309EA,[2] C/n / msn: 1010, fitted with Rolls-Royce RB211-22B turbofan engines, delivered in July 1972. In April 1973 and 1974, the plane was leased to Trans World Airlines under the same registration. It was en route from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Aftermath
The aircraft, N309EA, was repaired and returned to service until it was retired in 1988. In 1989, the aircraft was sold to Air Transat and re-registered as C-FTNB. The aircraft was scrapped in 2001.[3]
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