{"id":26490791,"date":"2026-10-04T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/el-al-flight-1862-bijlmer-disaster-747-engines-amsterdam-1992\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:22:48","slug":"el-al-flight-1862-bijlmer-disaster-747-engines-amsterdam-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/el-al-flight-1862-bijlmer-disaster-747-engines-amsterdam-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"El Al Flight 1862: The 747 That Lost Two Engines Over Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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El Al Flight 1862 had taken off from Schiphol just over thirteen minutes earlier. Both engines on its right wing were already lying at the bottom of a lake.<\/p>\n<p>The Bijlmer disaster of 4 October 1992, the Bijlmerramp in Dutch, killed at least 47 people: the three crew and one passenger on board, and 43 on the ground. It remains the deadliest air accident in Dutch history.<\/p>\n<p>It also became a lesson in how a small, hidden crack in a single metal pin could bring down the biggest airliner in the world, and how a disaster can keep claiming victims long after the fires are out.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Flight:<\/strong> El Al Flight 1862 (LY1862), Schiphol to Tel Aviv<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Boeing 747-258F freighter, registration 4X-AXG, built 1979<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> Four Pratt &amp; Whitney JT9D-7J<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 4 October 1992; crashed at 18:35 local time<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>What failed:<\/strong> Engine No. 3 tore off the right wing and knocked off engine No. 4<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Crash site:<\/strong> Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats, Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Deaths:<\/strong> At least 47: 4 on board, 43 on the ground<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Root cause:<\/strong> Fatigue cracking in an engine pylon fuse pin<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two engines gone over the Gooimeer<\/h2>\n<p>Flight 1862 was a cargo run from New York to Tel Aviv with a stop at Schiphol. On board were Captain Yitzhak Fuchs, 59, a former Israeli Air Force fighter-bomber pilot with more than 25,000 hours; First Officer Arnon Ohad, 32; Flight Engineer Gedalya Sofer, 61; and one passenger, Anat Solomon, a 23-year-old El Al employee travelling home to Israel to get married.<\/p>\n<p>The jet left runway 01L at 18:22 and turned right. Five minutes later, climbing through about 1,950 metres over the Gooimeer lake, witnesses heard a sharp bang. The No. 3 engine, the inboard engine on the right wing, had broken away, shot forward, and then swung back into the No. 4 engine, tearing it off too. Both engines fell into the lake, taking a ten-metre section of the wing's leading edge with them. A boater who saw them fall said he first thought they were parachutists.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHPLOZZf_Ts\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">The Air Crash Investigation episode on El Al Flight 1862, the most-watched documentary on the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The first officer called Mayday. Nobody on the flight deck yet knew the engines were physically gone; from the cockpit of a 747, the inboard engine cannot be seen at all, and it was getting dark.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;El Al 1862, lost number three and number four engine, number three and number four engine.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>First Officer Arnon Ohad<\/strong> &mdash; radio call to Amsterdam air traffic control, 18:28:45<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Eight minutes of fighting a broken wing<\/h2>\n<p>The crew asked to land on runway 27, even with a tailwind of more than 20 knots. They were too high and too close on the first pass and had to circle Amsterdam to lose height. That circle doomed them.<\/p>\n<p>At around 280 knots the damaged right wing still produced enough lift. But to land, the crew had to slow down and extend the flaps. With the No. 4 engine gone, its hydraulic system was dead too, so the outboard flaps would not deploy, and the torn leading edge meant the right wing's slats would not come out either. As the 747 slowed, the left wing produced far more lift than the right. The aircraft rolled right, and nothing the pilots could do would stop it.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/el-al-flight-1862-bijlmer-memorial-wall.jpg\" alt=\"Memorial wall for the victims of El Al Flight 1862 in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The memorial to the victims of the Bijlmer disaster, designed by Herman Hertzberger and Georges Descombes, near the crash site. Photo: Oyoyoy \/ CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>At 18:35:25 the first officer radioed that they were going down. Seventeen seconds later, rolled nearly 90 degrees, the 747 struck the corner where two eleven-storey apartment blocks met, exploding in a fireball that consumed all eleven floors along a front about 120 metres wide.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A neighbourhood on fire<\/h2>\n<p>Police initially feared more than 200 dead. The blocks housed many residents from Suriname, Aruba and Ghana, some of them undocumented, and the official toll of 43 people killed on the ground has been doubted ever since.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/bijlmermeer-flats-after-el-al-1862-crash.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of the Bijlmermeer flats destroyed by the El Al 747 crash in 1992\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The gap torn in the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg blocks of the Bijlmermeer after the crash. Photo: Jos Wiersema \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;This is a disaster that has shaken the whole country.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Ruud Lubbers<\/strong> &mdash; Prime Minister of the Netherlands, visiting the scene the day after the crash<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>Investigators traced the cause to the fuse pins that attach a 747 engine pylon to the wing. They are designed to shear cleanly under extreme loads so that an engine can fall away without damaging the wing. On 4X-AXG, fatigue cracks had already formed in the pins. The Netherlands Aviation Safety Board concluded that the design and certification of the 747 pylon had been inadequate and that inspections had failed to catch the problem, findings that fed into a programme of pylon and fuse-pin modifications on the 747 fleet.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The aftermath that would not end<\/h2>\n<p>The disaster did not stop at the crash site. Within a year, residents and rescue workers began reporting illnesses they linked to the crash. Authorities at first insisted nothing dangerous had been on board, until it emerged that the 747 carried depleted uranium as tail counterweight, as all 747s did at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998 El Al confirmed the cargo had included 190 litres of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a chemical that can be used to make the nerve agent sarin, shipped legally from the United States to the Israel Institute for Biological Research. A Dutch parliamentary inquiry followed. Every year since, the neighbourhood marks the anniversary, and no aircraft fly over the area for an hour.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSN5-FF_-lA\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">The NOS Journaal news broadcast of the evening of 4 October 1992, as the Netherlands learned what had happened in the Bijlmer.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3s8CV5XqjE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">Green Dot Aviation's animated reconstruction of how the two engines separated and why the crew could not hold the wings level.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Netherlands Aviation Safety Board final report, Dutch parliamentary inquiry, Wikipedia, Air Crash Investigation, NOS<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What happened to El Al Flight 1862?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-258F freighter, lost both right-wing engines shortly after taking off from Amsterdam Schiphol. While trying to return, the crew lost control and the aircraft crashed into apartment blocks in the Bijlmermeer district of Amsterdam.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many people died in the Bijlmer disaster?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">At least 47 people were killed in the Bijlmer disaster: the three crew members and one passenger aboard El Al Flight 1862, and 43 people on the ground. The ground toll has long been disputed because many residents of the flats were undocumented.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did the engines fall off El Al Flight 1862?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Investigators found fatigue cracks in the fuse pins that attached the No. 3 engine pylon to the right wing. The engine broke away, struck the No. 4 engine and tore it off as well, damaging the wing's leading edge and disabling hydraulic systems.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Could the El Al 1862 crew have landed safely?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Netherlands Aviation Safety Board concluded that, with the damage to the right wing and the loss of several systems, the crew had very limited control and that a safe landing was highly improbable, if not virtually impossible. The aircraft became uncontrollable as it slowed for landing.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was El Al Flight 1862 carrying?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Flight 1862 was a cargo flight from New York to Tel Aviv via Amsterdam. In 1998 El Al confirmed it had been carrying 190 litres of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a chemical that can be used to make sarin, shipped legally to the Israel Institute for Biological Research.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What changed after the El Al 1862 crash?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The investigation found the design and certification of the Boeing 747 engine pylon inadequate, which fed into pylon and fuse-pin modifications on the 747 fleet. 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