TACA Flight 110
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| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | May 24, 1988 |
| Type | Engine flameout |
| Site | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Passengers | 38 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Injuries | 7 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 45 (all) |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-3T0 |
| Operator | TACA |
| Tail number | N75356 |
| Flight origin | Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport, Belize City, Belize |
| Destination | Louis Armstrong International Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
TACA Flight 110 was a Boeing 737-300 traveling from Belize City, Belize to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States that lost power in both engines, but made a successful unpowered landing on a grass levee at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans. The incident happened on May 24, 1988. There were no casualties or serious injuries.
Investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)[1] concluded that the engines had failed "as a result of an inflight encounter with an area of very heavy rain and hail. A contributing cause of the incident was the inadequate design of the engines and the FAA water ingestion certification standards which did not reflect the waterfall rates that can be expected in moderate or higher intensity thunderstorms."
