Posted on 02/20/2021 2:13:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
After its engine caught fire and lost pieces of turbine blades shortly after departure, the aircraft entered into a holding pattern at 10,000 feet and diverted to Liege Airport. ...The pieces of turbine blades fell in the vicinity of Meerssen, and multiple parked cars were damaged. No injuries have been reported as of now.
(Excerpt) Read more at airlive.net ...
Ooops.
https://www.longtailaviation.com/
Expect Brilliance.
Bermuda’s Exclusive Air Carrier.......
“St. George’s, Bermuda (June 30, 2020) – Longtail Aviation, Bermuda’s exclusive air carrier and aircraft management company, is proud to announce the addition of a Boeing 747-400F Cargo Plane to its Air Operating Certificate expanding its worldwide charter operations to include the management of large capacity freight aircraft. The Company now offers cargo lift service in addition to private flights worldwide. The cargo plane will provide much needed long-range heavy-lift capacity to move medical supplies from China to countries in North America, South America and Europe...”
Rolls-Royce or Pratt-Whitney??
We can’t seem to make anything right anymore.
Looks like a 777 engine not a 747.
Perhaps someone was trying out a knockoff Hellfire — the kind used to knock off Qasem Soleimani?
Looks like P-W.
i would most likely think its poor maintenance on the engine, yes.
first thought that came to me about it.
Fan blade disintegration took out the engine shroud and hot section of the turbine and then fuel leakage and fire from the hot section. From the video the fire was rather small as I am sure the pilots shut down fuel flow to the engine. This was just residual fuel I would suspect.
I welcome a comment from a heavy metal driver on this.
Constantly on the lookout for foreign objects around jets. The smallest rock or piece of metal can start a chain reaction that has the turbine blades chewing each other to pieces. A lot of missiles just detonate in proximity to their target, creating a debris field that they must fly through.
Frank was a lot more...”memorable” than Harvey.
/but one of my Ibizan Hounds was named Pwca
:D
28 days 6 hours 42 minutes 12 seconds...
O.o
FOD
Boeing makes the plane, but the airline chooses the engines.
Not sure that is going to help people who are holding call options come Monday morning
GE, Pratt, and Rolls engines. None approve Chinese materials. Rolls does allow Russian.
I remember a couple of close calls in the AF. You did not want to be the reason that an aircraft sat on the flightline and was torn to pieces to find a lost tool. The guy I was working with dropped a tiny Allen wrench inside the console of an F-4. We thought about it for a minute, and he said “Gimme another one...I’m gonna drop it and watch where it goes.” I couldn’t believe that worked.
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