An Indian Airlines Caravelle, sister ship to the accident aircraft
Accident
Date
12 October 1976
Summary
In-flight fire due to an uncontained engine failure
Site
Bombay-Santacruz Airport, Bombay, India
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Sud Aviation Caravelle
Operator
Indian Airlines
Registration
VT-DWN
Flight origin
Bombay-Santacruz Airport (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport)
Destination
Madras Airport (now Chennai International Airport)
Passengers
89
Crew
6
Fatalities
95
Survivors
0
Indian Airlines Flight 171 was a Caravelle that crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Bombay Airport (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport) on 12 October 1976 after suffering an uncontained engine failure, killing all 95 people on board. Metal fatigue in the No. 2 engine's 10th stage high-pressure compressor disk had caused it to disintegrate,[1] the resulting fragments severed fuel lines causing fuel to leak into the engine and ignite causing an uncontrolled fire that eventually affected control surfaces leading to a loss of control.
^Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N VT-DWN Bombay-Santacruz Airport (BOM)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
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