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Drainage Ditch Disaster Before Flight
This Boeing 747 300 was majestic, monumental, and usually reliable—emphasis on “usually” because in 2001, it came with engine issues while waiting in a Kuala Lumpur hangar. A team of six technicians was supposed to guide the jumbo jet to the terminal for a flight to Jeddah. But routine flies out the window when they attempt a fateful turn onto another taxiway.
Disaster unfolds as they lose control; the plane veers off course, its nose plunging into a drainage ditch. All six technicians were injured, and the once-mighty 747-300 is totaled, thanks to an inoperative nosewheel steering system and faulty brakes—a shocking end for a giant of the skies.
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