The World - News from Aug. 21, 1986
One engine of an SAS airline Boeing 747 bound for New York caught fire shortly after takeoff from Copenhagen, but the plane managed to turn back and make a safe emergency landing at Kastrup international airport on its remaining three engines, authorities said. No one was injured. The Scandinavian Airlines System jumbo jet carried 337 passengers and a crew of 19.
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