Sas Md 80 Crash. A scandinavian sas passenger jet speeding down the runway in fog collided with a light aircraft killing everyone on both planes and four baggage handlers. Stockholm sweden a steel nerved scandinavian airline pilot crash landed his crippled warsaw bound jetliner carrying 129 people without loss of life thursday skillfully slowing his descent by.
At the time of the accident the aircraft had been in service for only nine months. This is the way the fire rescue in copenhagen airport after 28 years with honor and respect say goodbye to the legendary mcdonnell douglas md 80 from s. It was fitted with two pratt whitney jt8d low bypass turbofan engines.
Stockholm sweden a steel nerved scandinavian airline pilot crash landed his crippled warsaw bound jetliner carrying 129 people without loss of life thursday skillfully slowing his descent by.
The md 81 contacted trees at 121 knots and a major portion of the right wing broke off. The accident occurred less than a month after the september 11 attacks and the day after the u s. Due to the geometry of the md 80 thrust reversers the exhaust gas efflux pattern will at certain rollout speeds and epr settings interfere with the free stream airflow across the rudder surfaces. The crash at milan s linate airport in october 2001 was italy s worst civil aviation disaster.
