What: Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Atlanta GA to Ontario CA
Where: Ontario
When: Jun 23rd 2009
Who: 190 passengers
Why: Forty minutes before landing, the Boeing’s right engine ingested ice from the fuselage and started vibrating. The crew shut down the right engine, descended to a lower altitude and flew on the left engine successfully to Ontario.
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