Kalitta 747 crash crew battled dual-engine failure on take-off

[GittinFatter]

Oh yea, it showed up about 4days later, nice and clean!

 

[OrionFE]

NTSB was able to get fuel samples from the engines......fuel was clean! #4 Engine suffered a Compressor Stall at rotate. #1 Engine had a turbine failure after being advanced to Emergency Thrust!

A couple of weeks later, the replacement plane also suffered a compressor stall at rotate. The Pratts don't seem to do well at high altitude runways. Any kind of air disturbance seems to cause the compressor stalls???

 

[Dumbluck]

Any other operators run 747 classics out of there? Or even other heavy a/c powered by Pratt's? It would be interesting to find out if other operators have had similar issues.