[jazusamo]

Looks like "engine failure" is kind of an understatement.

[NonValueAdded]

primary engine?

[Hulka]

Loss of an engine. . .big deal. . .that is why they have two.

[cardinal4]

WTF is a “primary engine?

[yarddog]

They said the plane will be taken out of service to be checked out.

I can’t imagine any other option.

[Semper911]

This is not something you want to see:

[jazusamo]

GO, TRUMP, GO!

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[Rusty0604]

I’m just now boarding a Southwest flight, thanks for posting!

[Semper911]

From the article:

“It was just a big explosion. There was some smoke and then nothing,” a passenger from Oklahoma City who asked not to be identified told KOCO 5. “I saw parts flapping in the wind because it was right outside my window.”

A big explosion? Hmmmm...

[CARTOUCHE]

Very interesting as I was coming home last night from Vegas, last flight from HOU on SW and as we approached Corpus, the runway lights went out and the pilot performed a rejected landing, a first for me I think. We circled and landed on the alternate runway.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Not exactly something I’d LUV to see.

[Doogle]

[38special]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Video of a Turbofan containment test on a test stand. This is what those passengers experienced.

[al baby]

It was the bi pass line

[Political Junkie Too]

"Something is wrong with the left phalange!"

-PJ

[ProtectOurFreedom]

CFM International, a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric Co. and France’s Safran SA, is the sole supplier of engines to Boeing for the single-aisle 737. Southwest is the single largest operator of the single-aisle workhorse jetliner in the world.

What's the stock play? CFM is privately held by the parents. Short GE and/or Safran SA? Short SW if they have to ground a large part of their fleet?

The biggest part of the SW fleet is these 737 models (90% of fleet) using the CFM engines:

Boeing 737-700 - 490 (the plane that had the malfunction)
Boeing 737-800 - 124

[Vinnie]

What’s that red on part of the remains of the engine ? Blood ? as in bird strike?

[PAR35]

Is the primary engine the one on the right, the one on the left, or is the reporter an idiot that’s never seen an airplane?

[Ozark Tom]

Check out the damaged engine photos with turbine and spinner shown in place, and compare to the above photo. The intake cowling/duct is shredded and torn away; but, the first by-pass turbine stage with center spinner is still nestled in place.

The welds of an upper and lower section of the cowling assembly project forward from both inboard/outboard positions of the center duct remnant. The engine likely ingested debris from the cowling; but, the blade ring is intact.

The ribbed bulkhead which the cowling attaches to is intact also. The turbine is inset back from this stiffening partition. Behind this partition begins the space filled with accessories, pumps, and so forth which surround the engine core.

For whatever reason whether material fatigue, impact with something, or explosion of the cowling itself--the intake portion of the engine and not the turbine itself appears to have disintegrated.