Hughes Airwest Flight 12

Hughes Airwest Flight 12 was a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest, from Los Angeles, California, to, Miami, Florida with one intermediate stop. On Sunday, May 6, 1980 the Fokker 27-200 serving the flight Crashes After engine 2 exploded injuring and killing 7 passengers  23 survived of the 30 passengers and crew on the Fokker 27-200

Accident
The aircraft operating Flight 12, a Fokker 27, left Los Angeles, USA At 3:00 AM EST

on a one-stop flight to at 12:45 on May 6, 1980. The flight stopped and then continued on to Miami, but shortly after take off...

the aircraft experienced severe turbulence and was cleared to successively lower altitudes in an attempt to avoid the turbulence. During the descent the aircraft entered a region of severe precipitation, which caused both engines to flame-out due to very high levels of water ingestion. The crew managed to re-light both engines but lost control and impacted the ground. The aircraft struck the ground in a slightly nose down and right wing low attitude, bounced and then struck the ground a second time, sliding along the ground coming to a rest inverted.