ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 217273
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| Date: | Thursday 15 October 1998 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  McDonnell Douglas MD-88 |
| Owner/operator: | Delta Air Lines |
| Registration: | N902DE |
| MSN: | 53379/1983 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 134 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Boston-Logan International Airport, MA (BOS/KBOS) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Boston-Logan International Airport, MA (BOS/KBOS) |
| Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
On October 15, 1998, Delta Air Lines flight 915, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, N902DE, experienced an uncontained failure in the No. 2 (right) engine, a Pratt & Whitney (P&W) JT8D-219, immediately after takeoff from Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts. The pilots reported that, just after takeoff, they felt a light thump, the airplane yawed to the right, and the cockpit instrumentation indicated that the No. 2 engine had lost power. The pilots then declared an emergency and returned to Boston. None of the 128 passengers, 4 flight attendants, and 2 pilots on board were injured. The airplane was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Boston to Atlanta, Georgia.
The examination of the No. 2 engine revealed that the rear sections of the upper and lower forward cowl doors were deflected away from the engine and that the rear cowl doors were missing. The airplane’s vertical stabilizer and fuselage adjacent to the No. 2 engine sustained minor damage from impact by the upper cowling. Subsequent disassembly of the engine revealed the combustion chamber outer case (CCOC) had ruptured axially from the fuel drain boss at the bottom of the case.
Sources:
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 04-Nov-2018 13:02 | harro | Added |
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