Posted on 08/19/2025 6:42:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A Condor Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Italy after the plane’s engine burst into flames shortly after takeoff — prompting one terrified passenger to send out “goodbye texts” to loved ones.
The Boeing 757 carrying 273 passengers and eight crew members from Corfu, Greece, to Düsseldorf, Germany, experienced a turbine airflow disruption at an altitude of approximately 36,000 feet during the flight Saturday, per WDR.
Terrified passengers aboard Flight DE 3665 began to notice flames spitting from the right wing of the plane just after 8 p.m. local time, Bild reported.
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Before everybody starts jumping on Boeing, the picture appears to show birds all over....I would suspect this is a bird strike......however, having said that, it wouldn't make that ride such any less.
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Article says the engine caught fire at 36,000’.
No birds up there?
Airflow Disruption = Brown Alert
Wonder if they ever change the seats in those things.
Not many birds at 36,000 ft. Vultures maybe?
Kind of a non-story: the plane malfunctioned, it landed, and nobody was injured. The End
Maybe 3,600 feet.
Not too many birds at 36,000 feet.................
I had similar happen to me about an hour into a flight on an Airbus A319 in the late 1990s. I heard a loud bang and saw a shower of sparks coming from the engine. Pilot calmly described it as a ‘non catastrophic engine failure.’ We had what seemed like a normal landing at a closer airport with no incident. Firetrucks waited for us but were not needed.
Kind of a non-story: the plane malfunctioned, it landed, and nobody was injured. The End
From the vague / poorly translated descriptions in the article, plus the video, it looks like a compressor stall. Very loud, lots of visible flames, but those flames are fuel burning behind the engine in free air, i.e. the engine itself is not on fire and probably never was. Still might have been a pants-changing situation for some passengers though...
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Compressor stalls. Used to have to stand ground for compressor stall checks on C-141 aircraft. Pratt & Whitney engines, used bleed valves to dump excess air when the throttles got pulled back. Once in a while a valve would stick and here comes your compressor stall, fire flying out of the front of the engine and the bleed valve vents on the side. Never did watch the rear so may have been spitballs back there too.
Impressive as hell at night (grin).
DEI.....DEI.......DEI.......DEI forget SOS.
I didn’t read my own article 🤣
I’ve always heard that a plane can function with one engine. It may be a little bumpy, but they can safely land if one goes out.
Took off from Mt. Everest airfield?
Damn! I didn't know a Boeing 757 could climb like an F-15.
Who was flying beside them at 36,000’ with a camera?
A UFO with a non encrypted data stream?
But if the other engine(assuming 2 engine plane) is on fire, the situation becomes way more complicated..
What a horrible thing to experience.
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