7 December 2013

AirTran flight FL-289 , Boeing 717-200 from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood airport to Baltimore took off from Hollywood airport and was climbing through 2000 feet when airplane suffered an engine problem.The crew declared an emergency and diverted back to Hollywood airport for a safe landing

Passenger reported to Airplanes24 that after airplane departed with delay 1 hour an a half due to technical reasons and shortly after take off they heard several loud bangs from right hand engine.After airplane turned many times diverted back for an emergency landing

 

Fort Lauderdale Hollywood airport

 

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TRS289/history/20131207/1830Z/KFLL/KBWI