TAM Flight 9755


On Saturday 15 September 2001, a Fokker 100 scheduled domestic passenger flight operating TAM route 9755, carrying 88 passengers and 6 crew, departed Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport for São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. During the flight the plane suffered an uncontained engine failure. Fragments of the engine shattered three cabin windows, causing decompression and blowing the passenger in seat 19E partly out of the plane. Another passenger held them in until the aircraft landed, but the passenger blown out of the window did not survive.

Aftermath

The company TAM said in an official response that will provide "all assistance to the victim's family, as well as to other passengers, including medical and psychological care."

Aircraft

The aircraft was a Fokker 100 with the registration number PT-MRN. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service.

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