Sad news. Photos at site.
1 posted on
04/17/2018 1:45:49 PM PDT by
T-Bird45
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To: T-Bird45
Never sit beside the engine.
2 posted on
04/17/2018 1:48:38 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: T-Bird45
How does an engine just suddenly blow up?
I am thinking the turbine blade housing came apart.
Strict maintenance and part replacement schedules are designed to prevent such failures.
Could it be defective Chinese steel?
3 posted on
04/17/2018 1:49:20 PM PDT by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: T-Bird45
First passenger fatality US airline since 2009.
10 posted on
04/17/2018 1:55:45 PM PDT by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: T-Bird45
I just started reading Michael Crichton’s “Air Frame” that has a good description of what happens when a turbine comes apart in mid-flight.
13 posted on
04/17/2018 1:57:29 PM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: T-Bird45
Revealed as terrorism in 3...2...1...
14 posted on
04/17/2018 1:57:51 PM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
(Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
To: T-Bird45
As a former jet mechanic (and having borescoped a number of engines looking for turbine cracks) I can tell you that every time I board a plane or stand outside one that is turning...I think for a split second about being in the line of those disintegrating blades, but...you just have to not consider it.
It is like getting bugged out by germs every time you enter a bathroom. You will go bonkers.
Some things you just have to accept the risk is low.
16 posted on
04/17/2018 2:00:15 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: T-Bird45
Holy crap, I looked at the images...that doesn’t look like a turbine malfunction, it looks like the entire engine blew up and ripped off the plane.
Ugh.
20 posted on
04/17/2018 2:01:28 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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21 posted on
04/17/2018 2:01:40 PM PDT by
ethom
To: T-Bird45
Tweets at the time indicate she was dead on the plane.
26 posted on
04/17/2018 2:04:40 PM PDT by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: T-Bird45
35 posted on
04/17/2018 2:07:05 PM PDT by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: T-Bird45
I just remember holding my husband's hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed," said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York. Will DeBlasio have them arrested when they get back home?
42 posted on
04/17/2018 2:10:04 PM PDT by
libertylover
(If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
To: T-Bird45
Wow. Wonder how often this happens.
47 posted on
04/17/2018 2:11:59 PM PDT by
fwdude
(History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
To: T-Bird45
Prayers to the victim’s family and friends.
55 posted on
04/17/2018 2:13:57 PM PDT by
EdnaMode
To: T-Bird45
Haven’t flown in years, but back in the day I always tried to book seats right on the wing, for smoothest ride.
64 posted on
04/17/2018 2:18:43 PM PDT by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: T-Bird45
And the worst part of the flight was landing in Philadelphia.
78 posted on
04/17/2018 2:26:49 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: T-Bird45
Any flight crew will tell you the most dangerous part of the flight is the ride to the airport.
101 posted on
04/17/2018 2:50:57 PM PDT by
JPG
(MAGA)
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113 posted on
04/17/2018 3:10:19 PM PDT by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: T-Bird45
I still recall the Delta plane spooling up on the taxiway in Atlanta some years when some part of the engine let go and it severed the leg of one of the flight attendants..
As a survivor of a nasty DUI crash(the drunk sideswiped me @80mph-I was ejected during rollover) I do not push my luck by boarding any plane.
115 posted on
04/17/2018 3:13:30 PM PDT by
snuffy smiff
(Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle...)
To: T-Bird45
No, couldn’t be Southwest.
Not according to all the SW butt-kissers on FR, anyway.
123 posted on
04/17/2018 3:23:21 PM PDT by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: T-Bird45
In three years time (at most), the maintenance company responsible for the aircraft will be liquidated. If this is a problem with counterfeit parts, it should be interesting to see how the provenance of the parts is tracked down.
129 posted on
04/17/2018 3:43:02 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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