Incident: Air India B743 at Tokyo on Sep 21st 2008, engine spits parts

An Air India Boeing 747-300, registration VT-EPW performing flight AI307 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to Delhi (India) with 182 passengers, suffered the failure of engine #4 (outer right) shortly after takeoff, the engine spitting parts of its compressor and turbine onto a parking lot and destroying the windshield of a car. The crew declared emergency and decided to return to Narita, where the airplane landed safely about 80 minutes after departure.
The Japanese Ministry of Railway and Aviation has opened an investigation into the incident considered to be serious.
24/09/08 Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald, Austria

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Categories: Air India - International Sep 2008, Foreign Sep 2008, NACIL Sep 2008