Engine failure in the air caused the plane to break into 3 parts, 122 passengers were still safe thanks to one thing

The incident involving this plane is considered a miracle of the aviation industry up to the present time.

On December 27, 1991, a horrific air accident occurred with Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 operated by Danish Captain Stefan G. Rasmussen and Swedish co-pilot Ulf Cedermark.

The morning before the flight, the usual pre-flight procedures were completed. The weather was also normal. The crew members were said to be experienced pilots with thousands of hours of flight time. The aircraft was also almost brand new, having only been in service since January 1991.

The flight was scheduled to fly from Stockholm, Sweden to Warsaw, Poland with 122 passengers and 7 crew members.

Horrible incident

According to the schedule, the plane departed from Stockholm at 08:47 on the morning of December 27, 1991. Just 25 seconds after takeoff, both engines of the plane immediately encountered a problem, causing them to collide with each other and deforming the fan blades, disrupting the airflow to the compressor, causing the engines to quickly stop working when the plane was at an altitude of 980 meters.

Immediately, the passengers on the plane were in a state of panic. Captain Per Holmberg, who was on board as a passenger, noticed the problem early, rushed to the cockpit and tried to assist the crew.

In an emergency situation, the pilots decided to gradually lower the plane's altitude and chose a field in the forest, near the Vängsjöberg farm in Gottröra, Sweden to make an emergency landing.

Plane forced to make emergency landing after incident

During its final descent, the plane hit some trees, causing it to lose most of its right wing and crash into the ground tail first, with the tail cone breaking off. At that point, the plane skidded 110 meters, causing the nose of the plane to break off and the fuselage to break into three pieces.

Remarkably, after the plane landed, there was no fire, and all 129 people on board survived, with only 25 people reported to have been injured, of whom only two were seriously injured by the impact. The safety of all passengers was attributed to the quick response of the flight attendants and the precise instructions they gave to the passengers.

The plane broke into three parts after making an emergency landing in a field.

What caused the problem?

After the accident, investigators began to investigate the cause of the incident. Accordingly, they believed that the serious engine problems were due to the plane being parked overnight at temperatures of about 0 to 1 °C, causing ice to form on the upper surface of the plane's wings but was not detected.

The official accident report concluded: "The accident occurred because SAS instructions and procedures were inadequate to ensure that clear ice was removed from the wings of the aircraft prior to take-off. As a result, the aircraft took off with clear ice on the wings. During take-off, the clear ice became loose and was ingested by the engine. The ice damaged the engine fan stages, resulting in engine over-pressurization. The over-pressurization destroyed the engine."

Source: Simple Flying

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