Air Florida Flight 2198
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF
From Miami to Fort Lauderdale
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 71
- Survivors
- 71
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF
- Aircraft type
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Air Florida
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From MiamiTo Fort Lauderdale
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Air Florida Flight 2198 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF carrying 56 passengers and 15 crew members on board on a flight from Miami to Fort Lauderdale on 22 September 1981. After take-off the third (right) engine exploded, leading to the loss of the first and third hydraulic systems. Captain Raymond Ulrich, aged 31, with 8 years of flying experience, First Officer Michael Wardy, aged 38, with one year of experience, and Flight Engineer Richard McDonald, aged 32, with 10 months and 5 days of experience, struggled to make an emergency landing of their aircraft at Miami International Airport with two engines running at their maximum speed and their only hydraulic system, and they managed to make an emergency landing of the aircraft at Miami International Airport, and all 71 passengers and crew survived unharmed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Arabic Wikipedia article “طيران فلوريدا الرحلة 2198” (revision 62094750, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Arabic Wikipedia article: طيران فلوريدا الرحلة 2198
- Article
- طيران فلوريدا الرحلة 2198
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 62094750 · 2023-04-03 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q30082995
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ar Wikipedia article "طيران فلوريدا الرحلة 2198" (page 3640052, revision 62094750), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia article text, read with AI assistance: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Arabic Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.