Inquiry to Focus on Jets’ Engine Failures
Investigators will attempt to determine whether an engine fire that forced an Eastern Airlines DC-9 to make an emergency landing in Tampa is related to two similar engine failures, an Eastern official said Sunday.
Eastern Flight 250, bound for Atlanta, landed safely Saturday at Tampa International Airport with 110 passengers and a crew of six.
The engine, a Pratt & Whitney JT8D, is the same type that caught fire and destroyed a British Airtours Boeing 737 in Manchester, England, in August, killing 55 people. Another JT8D engine failed on takeoff of a Midwest Express DC-9 in Milwaukee Sept. 7, killing 31.
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