Commercial jets ever engine out off field?

FlightAware here is a B727 from earlier this year that lost all power and descended into the jungle with no loss of life!!!

Eastern Flight 855 departed MIA for Nassau (5 May 83), lost power in all 3 engines, but managed to get one engine restarted at 4000 feet, landing safely back at MIA.

Avianca Flight 052 (25 Jan 90) crashed in Cove Neck, New York after running out of fuel. 73 of the 158 on board died, when the aircraft came down on property owned by Tennis Player John McEnroe's parents. I recall the 911 tape of his mom calling to say a plane had crashed, and they were asking, "like a cessna", and she was saying "No, it's a big one", then she read of the Airliners Name 'Avianca Columbia', !!!

There was a German Airbus back in 2000 ran out of fuel, made a safe landing, an Indian Airbus in 93 - safe landing, and back in 89 a Brazilian B737 that ran out of fuel after the pilot set the auto pilot on 270 degrees instead of 027 and headed off to nowhere. The aircraft was found two days later with 48 survivors, out of the 54 on board.

And the hijacked Ethiopian B767 YouTube Video

The TACA B737 in New Orleans mentioned above, they did fry one engine, but after replacing the motor, they were allowed to take-off out of the field they had safely landed on.

There was also the terrible Southern Airlines Flight 242 (April 77) that crashed landed onto a highway in Georgia after losing both engines in a thunderstorm. There were only 4 survivors on the aircraft, which also killed 9 people on the highway!!!
Newspaper article and Cockpit Voice Recorder .

Fortunately losing all engines is very rare, but it does happen.

 

WOW!!!! I wan't aware of this one... Ya gotta love the ole "three holer". That airplane was built like a tank... I have a hard time imagining any other airplane landing like that and still having the fuselage in one piece let along everybody getting out alive.... Even with the side engines and wings sheared off, the fuselage was in one piece...

I had a friend who was a first officer on one of those for years and he said it was one airplane you could always count on. It was a rocket in climb (if it was empty you could stand it on it's tail) and always had plenty of power on a hot day. Every time I fly on DC9/MD(whatever) I really miss the old 727.