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National Airlines Flight 27

1Fatalities
127Survivors
128On board

Accident details

What happened

A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 with 128 on board, suffers an uncontained engine failure at 39,000 feet 65 miles southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Debris from the engine punctures the fuselage and a passenger is blown out of the aircraft, but the aircraft is able to land safely with no other casualties.

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