Posted on 07/10/2019 12:38:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a statement, Delta Air Lines said Flight 1425 was diverted “after receiving an indication of an issue with one of the aircraft’s engines.”
An earlier statement from Delta called the failure a “possible incident” — an instant classic in corporate understatements. The company declined to say whether passengers were in danger or describe what went wrong. Media reports indicated Delta offered passengers $30 food vouchers as they waited for a flight out of Raleigh, and CNN reported the plane was back in service Wednesday after the engine was replaced.
The aircraft involved is an MD-88, the oldest in service by any airline, which is slated to retire next year, according to Bloomberg News. Coined by pilots as “Mad Dog,” the notoriously loud, cramped and antiquated planes are so reviled by pilots that Delta has offered to fast-track young pilots to the captain’s chair if they agree to fly them, Bloomberg News reported.
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You can see them out the rear windows. Better bring your earplugs too!
Could be a big win for Airbus with Boeing's 737 MAX on the shelf indefinitely. Delta already has a lot of Airbus aircraft in service.
Looks like a bearing failure. The shaft is rubbing. also in the right mid upper corner, you can also see some orange where the fan blade tips are rubbing as well. The questions becomes, chicken or egg. Did the bearing fail first and the fan tips begin rubbing as the shaft turns eccentrically, or did a tip rub or ingest something midair, causing an old or badly installed bearing to fail. Luckily mo general engine fire. The shafts are nickel alloy so they don’t lite up like titanium engine components would.
Technically, that video is from a safe point - if the fan disc had gone or the engine experienced an uncontained failure, it would not have blown forward but out in a plane parallel to the disc or engine, or back behind it. The picture is shot from ahead of the engine and the videographer is in little danger. (Per several safety briefs I got as a contractor at LockMart and Bell Vertol.)
I was on an MD-88 Delta plane 2 months ago that had to return to the airport we just took off from (ATL). Smoke in the cabin...alarms going off and everything. No big deal, right? Those planes are an accident waiting to happen.
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Do you also get hysterical about riding in your car where you’re much more likely to get in an accident?
The Fake News knows when they can manipulate people.
I read that recently in their in-flight magazine. The article notes that the aircraft final assembly will be done in the Airbus facility in Mobile Alabama.
Lighten up Francis
Do you also get hysterical about riding in your car where you’re much more likely to get in an accident?
Is the MD 80 the one they called the S80 when it was launched. Someone pointed out the M80 was a firecracker and I believe the added the D designator. I just call it the flying cigar and avoided it as best as I could.
No one quoting accident stats notes how many vehicles are on the road at any time of the day verses how many airplanes are in the sky.
Go stune your beeber.
“The aircraft involved is an MD-88, the oldest in service by any airline, which is slated to retire next year,...”
This one’s retired, now.
The stats are properly compared using person miles traveled.
yikes !!! I just booked some flights with Delta ..
Ever listen to the ATC tape on that Alaska Air crash? Creepy.
What a flawed design. I never liked the stabilizers on top of the tail, just seemed fragile.
I stand corrected
My car isn’t going to drop 1 to 7 miles out of the sky due to mechanical failure thereby pretty much guaranteeing death. Same with accidents. Not hysterical, just common sense. The MD-88 is a flying turd of a death trap.
I don’t think $30 in food would soothe most folk’s nerves.
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