Preliminary inquiries indicate that the Nationwide Airlines Boeing 737-200 which shed its starboard engine on take-off from Cape Town two days ago had suffered ingestion resulting in catastrophic engine failure.

Nationwide states that the ingestion of an object, the nature of which is still unclear, led the Pratt Whitney JT8D engine to fail and generated forces strong enoug

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