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This is the story of transair flight 671. On the 31st of march 1992 a transair 707 was to fly from Luxembourg to Kano in nigeria. It was ferrying 38 tons of cargo. The plane took off at 7:14 am, the takeoff was normal and the plane climbed to its cruising altitude. The plane was flying over the Drome province under the control of the southEast Aircraft Navigation Regional Center, they wanted the plane to climb from 29000 feet to 33,000 feet. The throttles were advanced to the max and The plane started to climb as it cut through the thick clouds over drome that day.

The plane lurched as it was being buffeted by turbulence, suddenly two loud bangs were heard. The plane rolled to the right uncontrollably. If youve been watching my channel for while, you probably have an idea as to whats about to happen. The planes in the clouds, the planes rolling, its just a matter of time before they lose control right?

Well not with this crew in charge , the captain disconnected the autopilot and tried to stabilize the plane. He was successful but now the captain had a new challenge, the engine number 4 fire warning was going off. Soon afterward engine number three fire warning followed. The cockpit was drenched in the sounds of the fire warnings, the flight engineer was trying to suppress the warnings but they just wouldn't turn off. Another warning horn sounded, this time letting the crew know that the cabin was beginning to depressurize.

The captain was struggling to fly the plane and the first officer looked back to check the wing out, what he saw or in this didnt see was concerning, they had lost the number 4 engine, the outermost engine on the right hand side. When I say that they lost engine number 4 i mean that in a literal sense. The engine was nowhere to be found, it wasn't on the wing anymore. Then he got another shock. They had lost both engines on the right hand wing, both engines on the right hand wing were nowhere to be found.

The flight engineer began dumping fuel to lighten the plane for an emergency landing, as the captain wrestled with the plane, he asked for the weather conditions at Marseilles and began to descend intending to land at marseilles. The three men in the cockpit went through emergency checklist after checklist.

As they turned the wounded 707 towards marseilles, the first officer noticed an airfield ahead, it turned out to be a military airbase in the town of Istres, they found out that the runway there was 4000 meters or 130000 feet long, so they decided to land there.

They planned to land on runway 15 and for that to happen they needed to make a left turn, this was very hard in the damaged 707. The captain struggled to make the left turn, fighting to keep the little control that he had over his plane. A simple mistake and he would lose control of his jet.

As they made the left turn to line up with the runway the controller in the tower had some bad news, their plane was burning and it was bad. The plane touched down on the runway at 190 knots much faster than a normal 707 landing. Upon landing they found out that they had no brakes, they quickly engaged the emergency brakes. The tyres blew under the stress and the first officer engaged the reverse thrusters on the remaining engines. The plane rolled on for