Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-368 plane crash
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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The Boeing 747 was being taxied on Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) airport from a hangar toward a departure gate to board 319 passengers for Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), when the crew lost directional control of the plane and it entered a monsoon drainage ditch, resulting in serious damage to the forward airframe/nose section. None of the six crewmembers aboard were seriously injured.
The aircraft was being moved by a maintenance crew, who taxied using only the no.1 and no.4 engines, apparently not realizing that the aircraft's braking system is powered by hydraulic pumps powered by engines no.2 and no.3.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Red dot on map)
Photos of the crash of Saudi Arabian Airlines (23rd August, 2001)
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