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1 dead after jetliner apparently blows an engine in flight
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| 4/17/2018
| AP
Posted on 04/17/2018 1:45:49 PM PDT by T-Bird45
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To: T-Bird45
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:01:40 PM PDT
by
ethom
To: Romulus
Still safer than Uber on autopilot!!!
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: bigdaddy45
Don’t sit by the propellers on those puddle jumpers either....
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:03:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: WayneS; Hostage
The Boeing 737-700 uses the CFM International
CFM56-7 engine. Engines are built either in France or in Ohio, with major components made France, Ohio, and Italy.
If you think there's a Chinese connection, particularly to the single-crystal fan and compressor blades, show it.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:03:48 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: ethom
WOW. That is NOT gonna buff out.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:04:30 PM PDT
by
Zarro
(It is time to end the Mueller Witch Hunt. End it now.)
To: T-Bird45
Tweets at the time indicate she was dead on the plane.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:04:40 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: Romulus
Correct. US airlines fly almost one trillion passenger miles each year and this is the first fatality since 2009.
27
posted on
04/17/2018 2:04:55 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:05:25 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: sparklite2
[L-1011]
Favorite passenger airplane of all time. Eastern 401 being a very tragic combination of mismatched autopilot-related computers and pilot inattention due to the nose gear landing light bulb being burned-out.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:05:39 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Hostage
There had been an alert to watch out for counterfeit aircraft bolts some years back.
To: Hostage
Catastrophic failure. This type of event is so rare, but nothing is perfect.
I used to test-run them - not for the faint of heart.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:05:53 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: rlmorel
Sudden fan failure spinning at such high speeds will rip the engine right off the pylon out on the wing. That is far preferable than the entire wing structure folding up from the torque if the thing stayed attached.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:05:53 PM PDT
by
blackdog
To: NorthMountain
Single-crystal? Please elaborate.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:06:05 PM PDT
by
Zarro
(It is time to end the Mueller Witch Hunt. End it now.)
To: ethom
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:06:07 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: T-Bird45
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:07:05 PM PDT
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: WayneS
As multiple posters have already pointed out, you have no idea how jet engines are made. Lets make it simple. No, it had nothing to do with Chinese steel. But if it makes you sleep well to think that, then go for it.
To: SMGFan
“Tweets at the time indicate she was dead on the plane.”
Not surprising, given the nature of the shrapnel from the engine.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:07:34 PM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: WayneS
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:08:08 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: fella
“I just started reading Michael Crichton’s “Air Frame” that has a good description of what happens when a turbine comes apart in mid-flight.”
I recently read that one myself. It renewed my faith in the robustness of passenger jets.
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posted on
04/17/2018 2:08:13 PM PDT
by
jcmccorm
To: NorthMountain
Chinese did produce some counterfeit aircraft bolts some years ago. Lower grade steel with the high grade aircraft markings on the head.
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