Heavy in Engine-out Emergency
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November 18
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight with 298 people on board that had departed Brisbane for Singapore late Sunday
ended up making an emergency landing at Darwin after diverting en-route
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The captain shut down one of the two Rolls Royce Trent engines after it began to vibrate
well into the flight and headed for Darwin where he carried out a successful "feathered" one engine
landing
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Media source:-
ABC Previous SAL news
HERE
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Russian Passenger Prop-jet Lost
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November 20
Media reports have an Ilyushin IL-18 aircraft carrying 24 persons on board as having
crashed in the northern Russian region of Yaroslav about 24 km from Kalyazin
The vintage 1950's prop-jet aircraft is apparently
still widely used in Russia and the former Soviet Union countries for local and regional passenger carrying
operations
There has been no reports of any survivors
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Media sources:-
ABC
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