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Posted on 04/17/2018 1:45:49 PM PDT by T-Bird45
PHILADELPHIA — A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia just before noon as passengers breathing through oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling said their prayers and braced for impact.
"I just remember holding my husband's hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed," said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York. "And the thoughts that were going through my head of course were about my daughters, just wanting to see them again and give them a big hug so they wouldn't grow up without parents."
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Any flight crew will tell you the most dangerous part of the flight is the ride to the airport.
It’s an honest question, so as to dispel all the chemtrail conspiracy theories.
Where does all the exhaust from 200 metric meters of fuel go? I don’t understand, and just asking an honest question.
“Suffice to say, I will no longer lend even a little bit of credence to anything you post here. I actually used to respect you opinion, but you’ve burned that bridge today.”
Burn your bridge to me too while you’re up.
Jeez, butt-hurt much?
Not this one. Engine failure pure and simple.
The 737 would only have one remaining engine.
The fan looks fine though, at least the half you can see in the picture. Odd, maybe it sucked up a drone.
apparently blew an engine.......
It BLEW UP!
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I have had prop separation in flight, and a cylinder separation from the case causing a dead stick landing, coincidentally in Philadelphia.
There are big heavy disks that hold the blades in place. The section that blew apart here is the bypass fan...those are the big blades you see at the front of the engine. There are a lot of root causes for fan, compressor and turbine disks to fail. Usually a single blade let’s go, often taking out other blades, but the whole fan disk doesn’t disintegrate. Seems like there have been two or three fan disk failures per year the last few years. This looks like catastrophic failure of the fan disk as the entire fan is gone. What is remarkable is that the ruptured fandango doesn’t cascade backward through the compressor and turbine.
>>>There are no atheists on a air liner crippled and losing altitude<<<
I used to say that there were no Atheists on a crashing Airplane, until another FReeper admonished me for saying it.
They proceeded to tell me they were Atheist and had been involved in a near death experience. They said they didn’t change their Atheist beliefs during or after the event.
Now I say, there is no such thing as an Agnostic on a crashing Airplane. Decision time comes quickly in that situation.
Sucked a duck?
I’m a slow reader so don’t give away anything other than as in all Critchton books the good guy/gal wins.
I still recall the Delta plane spooling up on the taxiway in Atlanta some years when some part of the engine let go and it severed the leg of one of the flight attendants..
As a survivor of a nasty DUI crash(the drunk sideswiped me @80mph-I was ejected during rollover) I do not push my luck by boarding any plane.
Where are you getting this notion that the 737 carries 200 or 250 tons of fuel? The only aircraft that might carry that much would be the A380. The 737-700’s fuel capacity is more like 41 tons (Imperial tons). The 737’s empty weight is only about 83,000 pounds, so it’s definitely not lifting a half-million pounds of fuel, plus the weight of the passengers and luggage. The only aircraft with max gross weights in that realm are wide body heavies.
>>>Any flight crew will tell you the most dangerous part of the flight is the ride to the airport<<<
Especially if the Crew Bus from the Hotel to the Airport is being driven by an Oriental Female Illegal Invader.*
*Diving under my desk for cover...
Sucked a duck?
The big tank is in the center. Looks like each of the wing tanks holds about 4530 kilograms of fuel. A little less in the newer planes. So say, roughly, 4 metric tons for each wing.
Note, however, that the center tank does extend into the wings. So you need to calculate what percentage of the center tank’s fuel is in the wings.
With my wife and three kids and a dog on board at the time. Fantastic ATC and tower there. Cleared everything below and gave an immediate vector for the closest active. The worst part was waiting to be towed off the runway because that’s when they all woke up and wanted to know why we were just sitting there?
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