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Boeing plane makes emergency landing after engine bursts into flames: ‘I already sent goodbye texts’
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| Aug. 19, 2025
| Nika Shakhnazarova
Posted on 08/19/2025 6:42:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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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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posted on
08/19/2025 6:42:32 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: V_TWIN
Article says the engine caught fire at 36,000’.
No birds up there?
To: V_TWIN
Airflow Disruption = Brown Alert
Wonder if they ever change the seats in those things.
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posted on
08/19/2025 6:47:07 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: V_TWIN
Not many birds at 36,000 ft. Vultures maybe?
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posted on
08/19/2025 6:48:34 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
To: V_TWIN
Kind of a non-story: the plane malfunctioned, it landed, and nobody was injured. The End
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posted on
08/19/2025 6:49:54 AM PDT
by
dinodino
( Shut it down anyway. )
To: V_TWIN
Before everybody starts jumping on Boeing, the picture appears to show birds all over....I would suspect this is a bird strike
The article says it happened at 36,000 ft; videos and photos showing the birds are from its approach to make the emergency landing. Kinda doubting bird strike.
But also, yeah. Boeing isn't an engine manufacturer. And the airframe in question is over 25 years old. Probably a maintenance issue.
From the vague / poorly tranlsated 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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posted on
08/19/2025 6:49:54 AM PDT
by
verum ago
(I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
To: 1FreeAmerican
..shortly after takeoff .. Maybe 3,600 feet.
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posted on
08/19/2025 6:52:03 AM PDT
by
Henchster
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To: V_TWIN
Not too many birds at 36,000 feet.................
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posted on
08/19/2025 6:58:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: dinodino
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.
To: dinodino
Kind of a non-story: the plane malfunctioned, it landed, and nobody was injured. The End
Beat me to it. And, yeah.
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:02:46 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
To: verum ago
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).
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:05:57 AM PDT
by
dagunk
To: V_TWIN
DEI.....DEI.......DEI.......DEI forget SOS.
To: Red Badger
I didn’t read my own article 🤣
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:07:49 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: V_TWIN
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.
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:15:04 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Henchster
Took off from Mt. Everest airfield?
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:25:44 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: V_TWIN
shortly after takeoff ... at an altitude of approximately 36,000 feet Damn! I didn't know a Boeing 757 could climb like an F-15.
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:26:22 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: 1FreeAmerican
Who was flying beside them at 36,000’ with a camera?
To: crusty old prospector
A UFO with a non encrypted data stream?
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:30:54 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: Opinionated Blowhard
But if the other engine(assuming 2 engine plane) is on fire, the situation becomes way more complicated..
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:33:24 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: V_TWIN
What a horrible thing to experience.
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posted on
08/19/2025 7:51:12 AM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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