A Transcarga Airbus A300B4F suffered an uncontained failure of its left engine during take-off at Bogota International Airport.
The Airbus A300, with registration YV560T, was accelerating for flight T91527 to Caracas, Venezuela, when a loud bang was heard. The crew were forced to abort takeoff and return to the stand.
A large cylindrical metallic object landed near the airport, missing a motorcycle driver narrowly outside the airport fence in a public street. The metallic object was a rotor discs of the left CF6 engine of the aircraft.
Mauricio Marin, a resident who witnessed the explosion on a motorcycle, said:
“I felt that a plane left at that moment, and there was an explosion. I was looking for an address when I felt an explosion, and I felt that pod pass behind me; that pod almost caught me.”
“My God is very great, and he still has me for many things,” he added.
