Mayday — Episode 11: Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110)

You are watching the episode Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110) 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.