TAME Fokker F-28-4000 Fellowship (HC-BMD)

Aviation Safety Network reports (condensed): “TAME Flight 120 was a regular flight from Quito to Cali … The aircraft taxied to runway 35 and the crew was cleared for takeoff at 09:39. At a point 2110 metres down the runway, while the airplane was accelerating, both tires of the left hand main undercarriage blew. The takeoff was abandoned and the pilots managed to keep the airplane on the runway. As it overran the end of the runway, the nose gear collapsed. The aircraft came to rest 81 metres past the end of the runway. A small fire erupted in the area of the left hand main gear. This was quickly contained by the fire service.” No fatalities, but the aircraft was written off as destroyed. And TAME? The Ecuadorian airline existed from 1962 to 2020 in one form or another. Unused card. Grade: 1