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Austrian Airlines Fokker Smokes Take-off


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Contact photographer Radu Dobrescu

What: Austrian Airlines Fokker 100 en route from Belgrade Serbia to Vienna Austria
Where: Belgrade
When: Jan 19th 2010
Who: 83 passengers and 5 crew
Why: After passengers had boarded but before they took off, the left hand engine began smoking. Passengers disembarked and the flight was cancelled. The flight was reported alternately as an aborted takeoff and engine fire, but in our opinion, the most credible report seems to be that the flight never actually attempted to get off the ground.

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