Pilots rescued after Boeing 737 cargo plane makes emergency landing off Hawaii coast, FAA says

[turbinetree]

Source: USA Today

N'dea Yancey-Bragg USA TODAY
Published 11:14 am ET July 2, 2021/ Updated 4:09 pm July 2, 2021

A Boeing 737-200 cargo plane with two people aboard made an emergency landing in the water off the coast of Hawaii on Friday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The pilots of Transair Flight 810 reported engine trouble and attempted to return to Honolulu before they decided to land the plane in the ocean, officials said in a statement.

The pilots, who were en route to Maui, reported one engine was down and then lost their second engine before 2 a.m., ABC News reported citing the state's department of transportation.


Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/02/boeing-737-cargo-plane-emergency-landing-off-hawaii/7839679002/

[Mysterian]

1. Both pilots seriously injured -- one critical

I hope they both recover quickly.

[raccoon]

2. Was that the Plane That was so hazardous? Nt

[EX500rider]

3. No

that was a much older 737 from the 1970s

[trof]

4. I don't think so.

The 200 model is a workhorse.
Wonder if there was fuel contamination. Double engine failure is very rare.

[Warpy]

9. That was my guess, too

especially since it's happened before, don't remember the details.

[Bo Zarts]

10. P&W JT-8D engines .. very reliable.

I flew the 737-200s for a while. Low-tech, like me. Fuel contamination, fuel starvation, multiple bird strikes all come to mind.

[turbinetree]

15. The Model B737-200 has been around since the late 1960's United was the launch customer

it has JT8D Low by-pass engines, great AC to work on, because the engines were low..., so the plane sat low compared to the high by pass engines that you see today...around 10, 000 have been built...

[HUAJIAO]

5. That plane is an old classic.. Not too many produced.

many were fitted with "mud flaps' behind the landing gear as they were used a lot on unimproved landing strips.... much smaller engines nacelles than the 737s we are used to seeing...

[Major Nikon]

6. Sounds like maybe a fuel issue

The plane would have flown just fine with one engine. Perhaps some contaminates which clogged one side and inevitably shut down the other.

[iluvtennis]

7. Sent up a prayer for the pilots. n/t

[James48]

8. I saw the flight profile

They never got above 2500 feet, and began losing altitude the moment the first engine quit/ or was shut down. Unable to climb on one.

So either fuel problems were possible, or an overloaded airplane that couldn’t climb with one engine out.

Video of communications feed:

Here is the flight data- he was only in the air for 12 minutes. The Coast Guard found the wreckage and the two victims an hour after the crash. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/RDS810/history/20210702/1100Z/PHNL/PHOG/tracklog

[burrowowl]

17. Kick

[Scruffy1]

11. Glad to hear they are alive.

If your having a bad day think of losing your other motor and having to ditch. As an aside, having no knowledge of what caused this nightmare, I remember a conversation about cargo hauling with a former major airline mechanic. He said: " You can always get some to sign off on it."

[Sgent]

14. Ditch

at 1am into the Pacific Ocean. Someone had a bad day.

I wonder did the lose both engines or too much height while turning to get back to the airfield?

[jmowreader]

12. According to the AP...

https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-19836928230df90d765c9ae4f7dfc76a

the first engine died for whatever reason, and the other one overheated. The flight commenced in the 1AM hour, so outside air temperature shouldn't have been a factor.

The airline has been in operation since 1982 and this was their first incident, so they seem to be a good operator.

[Rollo]

13. Plane went down in 150 feet of ocean water...

Hope the pilots make full recoveries. They may be lucky to be alive.

It also may take a while before the cause(s) of the multiple engine failures is/are known.

Also, all existing 737's of that vintage probably could use additional inspections.

[EX500rider]

16. The Hawaii inter-island planes do a incredible amount of take off and landings.

Saw this over at the airliners.net forum:
The utilization of that airframe (N810TA) has been crazy. 60+ cycles in the past week alone on an bird that's 46 years old.
&
she had 71,706 hours and 67194 cycles.
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Would be very, very unlikely that a fuel issue, as some have speculated regarding potential cause, (we’re talking PHNL here, a very large airport) had anything to do with this event. PHNL departures are ongoing.

Maybe bird strike or they shut down the wrong engine or bad fuel.

[mn9driver]

18. The latest word from some folks who claim to have access to

Maintenance records for that aircraft, is that the right engine had been written up at least twice recently for high EGT on takeoff. Aside from signing off the discrepancy as “noted”, there doesn’t appear to have been any actual fix applied.

If this turns out to be accurate, the operating certificate for the airline will probably be suspended until they can demonstrate their maintenance problems have been addressed.