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Old Mar 26, 2019, 11:48 pm
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Originally Posted by 355F1
Maybe or maybe not related but did anyone see this story today?

Looks like an empty SW MAX had some sort of take-off emergency on its way to storage and landed back at the airport.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ge/3281138002/
The problem apparently occurred ten minutes into the flight and was caused by an engine having ingested some debris that was on the runway at takeoff. The pilots turned off that engine and returned to MCO, landing without incident. It doesn't sound like it was related to the problem(s) that caused the Lion Air and Ethiopia crashes.
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