Date: 14 June 2000
Airline: Continental Airlines
Flight No.: None
Aircraft: Douglas MD-82
Location: Newark, New Jersey
Fatalities: 0:6
Photographer: NY/NJ Port Authority
The aircraft's engines were being
started for a maintenance engine run when the aircraft suddenly lurched forward
and crashed through the terminal wall of Concourse C at the Newark International
Airport. Two of the six maintenance workers on board were taken to the hospital
with minor injuries. Failure of the maintenance crew to set the parking brake
prior to engine start.
