17apr2015: rather eventful engine fail on Serbian gvmt Fa50

[Stratofreighter]

...apparently...

http://www.smh.com.au/world/serbian-pre ... mnrsr.html

An ageing Serbian government plane carrying the country's
president tumbled through the air "for a whole two minutes" on Friday
when an engine failed, tossing passengers around the cabin.

The plane landed safely back in Belgrade, but President Tomislav
Nikolic was forced to cancel his official visit to meet Pope Francis
in the Vatican.

"I'll never step foot on that plane again," Stanislava Pak, a Nikolic
advisor, said

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/world ... lunge.html

About an hour after takeoff, at an altitude of about 33,000
feet, one of the three engines on the plane stopped working, he said.
During the next minute, the plane dropped over a mile.

“The aircraft became unstable, there was turbulence,” Ivan Mrkic, one
of Mr. Nikolic’s advisers, told the daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti
of Belgrade. “We were literally thrown around the plane.”

Stanislava Pak Stankovic, another presidential adviser on board,
seemed astonished to have survived the plunge. “Believe me, at one
point we were literally dropping like a rock,” she told the
newspaper.