{"id":8416408,"date":"2026-08-01T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/taca-flight-110-levee-landing-1988\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:14:06","slug":"taca-flight-110-levee-landing-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/taca-flight-110-levee-landing-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Engines Dead, He Landed on a Levee"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>On the afternoon of 24 May 1988, a nearly new Boeing 737-300 was threading between thunderstorm cells on approach to New Orleans. In the left seat sat Captain Carlos D&aacute;rdano &mdash; twenty-nine years old, and flying with one eye, the other lost to gunfire in his war-torn homeland.<\/p><p>Then the unthinkable happened twice at once. Torrential rain and hail drowned the fire in both engines as they idled for the descent. The thrust died, the cockpit went dark, and a jetliner full of people became a sixty-tonne glider over the swamps east of the city.<\/p><p>No runway was in reach. What followed was one of aviation&rsquo;s most improbable saves &mdash; and a coda stranger than the emergency itself.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px;color:#222\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Fecha<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">24 May 1988<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Aeronave<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Boeing 737-300 (N75356), only months old<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Operador<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">TACA International, inbound to New Orleans<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Qu\u00e9 pas\u00f3<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Both CFM56 engines flamed out in heavy rain and hail at ~16,500 ft<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Capit\u00e1n<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Carlos D&aacute;rdano, 29 &mdash; who flew with one eye<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Aterrizaje<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">A dead-stick touchdown on a grass levee by NASA&rsquo;s Michoud facility<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Damnificados<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">None &mdash; all 45 aboard walked away<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Coda<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">New engines were fitted and the 737 was flown off the levee<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Into a Wall of Rain and Hail<\/h2><p>Descending toward New Orleans, the crew saw storms on the radar and picked what looked like a gap between two intense cells. They switched on continuous ignition and engine anti-ice as a precaution. But radar can hide the very worst weather &mdash; heavy rain can absorb the signal and read as a deceptively clear shadow.<\/p><p>The gap was not a gap. The 737 punched into rain and hail far beyond anything its engines had truly been tested against.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1316979383  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:-SpW.c909\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/taca-737-300-n75356.jpg\" alt=\"TACA Boeing 737-300 N75356\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The accident aircraft, N75356, in TACA livery. Howard J Nash, CC BY-SA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Both Engines Flame Out<\/h2><p>At about 16,500 feet, with the throttles at idle, both CFM56 engines flamed out. The crew started the auxiliary power unit to restore electrics and hydraulics, then tried to relight the engines. They lit &mdash; but would not spool up past idle, and pushing the throttles only spiked the temperatures toward a fire. To avoid that, the pilots shut both engines down and committed to a glide.<\/p>\r\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\/LFTFCfcnqF8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">The extraordinary glide and levee landing of Flight 110.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;With remarkable airmanship, Captain Carlos Dardano had dead-sticked the 737 onto a mile-long patch of rain-soaked earth. The airplane and its passengers were unharmed.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Peter Garrison<\/strong> &mdash; Aviation writer (Air &amp; Space \/ Smithsonian, 2006)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Levee Instead of the Water<\/h2><p>D&aacute;rdano first lined up to ditch in a canal, stretching the glide while the first officer ran the checklist. Then the crew spotted a grass levee running beside the waterway and chose it instead. Using a sideslip to bleed off height and speed, D&aacute;rdano threaded the powerless jet onto the narrow earthen bank &mdash; on the grounds of NASA&rsquo;s Michoud Assembly Facility.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=140144492  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:-SpW.c909\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/n75356-737-300-later-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Boeing 737-300 N75356 back in service\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The same jet, repaired and back in service &mdash; it flew for decades more. Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Everyone Walks Away<\/h2><p>The touchdown was clean. The 737 rolled to a stop with only minor hail damage, the slides deployed, and all forty-five people aboard climbed out with nothing worse than a few bumps. A pilot sent to overfly the spot where the radar target had vanished found the airliner improbably parked, intact, on the levee.<\/p>\r\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\/14DyBpYzwP4\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">A documentary segment on the double flameout.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;A double engine flameout due to water ingestion which occurred as a result of an inflight encounter with an area of very heavy rain and hail.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>US National Transportation Safety Board<\/strong> &mdash; Probable cause, 1991<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">They Flew It Off the Levee<\/h2><p>The first plan was to barge the jet out with its wings removed. Instead, Boeing changed the engines where it sat, fuelled it lightly, and flew the 737 off a road built atop an old wartime runway. The aircraft returned to airline service and flew for decades more.<\/p><p>The near-disaster also rewrote the rulebook: investigators found the engines had met the water standard of the day, but that standard did not reflect a real thunderstorm. New designs and, in time, an entirely new rain-and-hail certification standard followed.<\/p>\r\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\/E6-0lkSoemI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">Footage of the 737 taking off from the old Michoud runway.<\/p><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:20px\">Sources: Wikipedia (TACA Flight 110); FAA Lessons Learned \/ NTSB (FTW88IA109); Peter Garrison, Air &amp; Space (2006).<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/alaska-airlines-as181-787-9-rome-diversion-2026\/\">El Dreamliner que dio la vuelta sobre Inglaterra<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/leduc-ramjet-the-jet-that-couldnt-take-off\/\">El avi\u00f3n que no pudo despegar<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/air-transat-236-azores-glider-no-engines\/\">306 almas, dos motores muertos, un planeo<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACA Flight 110 lost both engines to storm hail over New Orleans in 1988. 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