[eno_]

Yow, we have Pollyanna vs. Chicken Little. It probably ain't a self-exploding engine, and it probably ain't a wrench in the engine. It probably was a bomb in a suitcase, in the baggage compartment, unless the metal chunks from a bad engine (which Bob has documented are No Fun At All) are enough to chop the tail off the plane.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Finally saw the video y'all are talking about (re: the tail, or "chopping the tail off the plane"). You had me concerned there for a bit, I thought you were talking about a complete tail section. That was just a vertical stabilizer.

Hmmm...maybe they used that monkey wrench to loosen all the bolts on the vertical stab before they hid it in the inlet.

[185JHP]

I thought the spinscam was: engine explodes, which blows off the wing, then the wing knocks off the tail - laughable, but hey, they can try, can't they?