Mayday S11E11 · Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110)

Mayday

Season 11 · Episode 11 · Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110) · 45 min

On 24 May 1988, TACA Airlines Flight 110, a near-new Boeing 737, flies through a thunderstorm and suffers a dual engine flameout. The captain, Carlos Dardano, manages to make a successful deadstick landing on a narrow grass levee in the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans.