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Terrifying video shows plane flying with shredded engine after midair explosion
nypost.com ^
| Feb. 12, 2026
| Patrick Reilly
Posted on 02/12/2026 11:55:35 AM PST by V_TWIN
Terrifying images show a passenger plane flying with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it managed an emergency landing.
Passengers filmed the shocking view of the Arik Air Boeing 737’s left engine destroyed during a cross-country flight in Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Some of the horrified 80 passengers could be heard screaming as the plane instead made an emergency landing in neighboring Benin, somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.
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posted on
02/12/2026 11:55:35 AM PST
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V_TWIN
To: V_TWIN
I think I would expect an upgrade for my next trip.
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posted on
02/12/2026 11:57:42 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
02/12/2026 11:58:48 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: Larry Lucido
Or at least an olive in my martini…
To: V_TWIN
No terrifying to the onlookers, but certainly to those on board.
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:11:52 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: V_TWIN
Hostess to exhausted passengers sliding down the inflated ramp to exit at the end of Airplane!:
“Thank you for flying Trans American Airlines.”
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:14:25 PM PST
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frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: V_TWIN
Arik Air, West Africa’s leading airline.
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:18:24 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:24:15 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:25:28 PM PST
by
jroehl
(And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
To: V_TWIN
To: V_TWIN
Either it struck something on the ground or the well trained mechanics in Nigeria forgot to fasten part of the cowling. The engine did not “blow up” the nacelle blew to pieces and part of it struck the vertical. Judging by the turbofan rotating freely, no blood or feathers, no signs of flames, I am putting my money on a failure of proper maintenance and an oversite by the ground crew. OR. Maybe it hit a weather balloon. Hard to guess with the damage to the vertical.
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:50:25 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
To: Organic Panic
Shhhhhhh! Pretty sure flying with one motor is built in. 🤔
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posted on
02/12/2026 12:53:37 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
To: V_TWIN
Excuse me, Terrifying is the plane nosing over and crashing. Safely landing is just an interesting story!
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:06:52 PM PST
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Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
To: V_TWIN
“…somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.“
Yeah, somehow.
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:16:30 PM PST
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TalBlack
(Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
To: V_TWIN
how far will the other engine take us!?!?!?!?
all the way to the scene of the crash
Ron White
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:17:14 PM PST
by
cableguymn
(Can't cancel all of us)
To: Libloather
And yet, despite the cognitive dissonance of millions of "keep calm" t-shirt sales:
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:23:04 PM PST
by
rx
To: All; TalBlack
Yeah, somehow designed to fly safely & land on one engine. 🙄
And it looks like it was a case of ground crew oversight of proper engine cowl latching.
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:31:42 PM PST
by
Drago
To: rktman
“Pretty sure flying with one motor is built in.”
Yeah, but not exactly desirable. 😏
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02/12/2026 1:32:18 PM PST
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V_TWIN
(America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
To: Libloather
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posted on
02/12/2026 1:47:30 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Homer: A doughnut in each hand is a balanced diet.)
To: V_TWIN
Good job by the flight crew?
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