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There needs to be a flight number on this to conform to standards on other airplane crashes. I made a few attempts to locate it myself and was not successful. Regrettably it was not well covered, even then. This was likely not sensational enough to an uniformed media/public. Everyone survived and the plane looks fine, who cares *sigh*. This incident was a big deal in the industry because a brand new airplane should not suddenly lose both engines under conditions it was certified for. I first heard about it an industry trade magazine (Air Transport World?) a few months afterwards. We might need to go thru some newspaper microfilms from late May to early June 1988 for the flight number.
SkyWayMan 02 March 2006 01:17 (UTC)
Amoz02t writes 9-29-2010: First person witness. Please let me clear up one minor historical detail here. The plane TOOK OFF from the access road next to the grass field, NOT the grass. I was working at Michoud Assembly Facility at the time. I recall the hard rain when the plane landed on the grass and even the paint missing from the nose due to the hail. A guy I worked with was out in the rain when it landed. He was warning the firemen responding to the emergency landing not to run their trucks into the ditches in the field as they raced out to the plane in the pouring rain. The pilot was/is a hero. We Martin Marietta workers assumed that the plane would eventually be riding out on one of the barges used for the Space Shuttle External Tanks made there. Days later after only one of the two 737 GE CFM56 engines was replaced, the Boeing test pilots flew the 737 out. They took off from an access road that was originally put down to support the weight of the Apollo Saturn rocket first stage. The Saturn first stage was produced at Michoud before the Shuttle External Tank. There was a crowd of MAF employees as witnesses when the empty 737 took off like a rocket over the green Chalmette bridge. It took off from a paved surface, days after the 737 landed undamaged with gear fully extended on the wet grass. The short little AvWeek story right after the event wrongly stated the take off was from grass. I was there. Landed on grass. Left from pavement. S Gillespie 2010.
