More scary for the donks.
Posted on 02/03/2025 6:27:19 AM PST by V_TWIN
More scary for the donks.
Lol!
I’m glad it happened before they got into the air where it could’ve been much worse.
Am Track is starting to look better and better these days.
No big deal. The pilots will shut the engine down and stop the fuel flow and activate the fire suppression system in the engine. They will then land the plane using just one engine or in the case of a Jumbo 3 engines. What you do not want is a turbine disintegration. That is really bad. The engine's turbine blades then become shrapnel. Southwest had one disintegrate in flight and it killed a passenger.
Hmm. That’s not supposed to do that...
About 100 years ago, I was a young Company Commander at (then) Ft. Lewis headed to Yakima, WA for a meeting. I was lucky enough to score a trip on an Army ‘C-12’...saving me a 325 mile round trip.
The C-12 is an Army version of a King-Air executive plane that usually flew people way more senior to me around. I called my wife and told her I’d be home that night and got on the packed plane. I got out of the senior guys way and sat next to the crew chief.
As the pilots took her up and began the long circular ascent flight pattern over the Puget Sound red lights came on across the instrument panel indicating engine fire, The Crew Chief asked to wake the sleeping guys in the cabin and make sure they belted in. The port engine was indeed on fire.
We returned to the Airfield in good order, got chased and foamed by the crash trucks just like in the disaster movies. About an hour later, I walk through my front door and announce “I’m home” “You’re early...” “Yeah the plane broke...”
That night, the eleven o’clock news led with the story: “US Army plane in flames forced to land at Ft. Lewis” alongside terrible 1990’s phone video clips. My wife, a relatively new army wife was not amused.
Yes, Boeing was the shark attack story in a slow news cycle.
That has been subsequently replaced by NJ drones, LA wild fires, Trump cabinet picks and most recently the DC plane collision.
All multi engine aircraft are designed to fly with one engine out.
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