Posted on 04/17/2018 1:45:49 PM PDT by T-Bird45
PHILADELPHIA — A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
The plane, a twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard, made an emergency landing in Philadelphia just before noon as passengers breathing through oxygen masks that dropped from the ceiling said their prayers and braced for impact.
"I just remember holding my husband's hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed," said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York. "And the thoughts that were going through my head of course were about my daughters, just wanting to see them again and give them a big hug so they wouldn't grow up without parents."
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It would be my guess that it’s more likely to be made out of titanium than steel.
I like window seats, but do keep the belt fairly tight. I don’t sit by the wings/engines.
No, couldn’t be Southwest.
Not according to all the SW butt-kissers on FR, anyway.
There are Imperial meters?
I don’t buy that whole farce of safety.
Of course air wins in miles. But I’d be willing to bet they do not win in terms of hours or just plain number of trips. How many trips do you make by car yet never have even a fender bender? That counts much more than miles traveled.
Watch Air Disasters and you’ll get more feel for how much DOES happen, especially after checking out Wiki for a listing of air crashes.
Yeah, I got ahead of it, by design. There’s not much to discuss with such a tragedy, so I decided to plug the PRC Chinese who are truly devious anyway. I’m not ashamed. Discuss the downside of Chinese steel, it’s legit to do that. We’ll see what NTSB comes up with.
But I stand by the claim that maintenance programs are required to replace parts precisely for reasons such as what possibly caused this, and yes defectively composed and tempered steel can cause a failure regardless.
Or how good discussions get started.
Thank you, very good input.
But compare with #12.
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.
The blades are not made of steel.
landed on the runway?
“First passenger fatality US airline since 2009.”
Yep....Amazing amounts of flights per day!
http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/tracking-87000-flights-day
Wow, what a record. And only one person, too. Just astonishing how good modern engineering, materials, training, aircrew talent, etc is.
Meant “metric tons”...
The same way they blow up planes in mid flight.
Just ask the passengers on Pan Am flight 103.
Any flight crew will tell you the most dangerous part of the flight is the ride to the airport.
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Not the TSA search?
Specs for the Airbus are 250 metric tons of fuel.
Yep. You read that right. So I was downgrading to 200 metric tons.
So the 737 only carries about 41 tons? That would be 20 tons each wing?
Wowser.
“Any flight crew will tell you the most dangerous part of the flight is the ride to the airport.”
Oh..so very true!
Okay, on the Airbus, there is no center tank, and it holds 250 metric tons of fuel.
Where is this center tank that holds about 30 metric tons of fuel, if each wing only holds 4 metric tons?
Also, where are the exhaust “pipes” on these engines? I’d like to dispel the chemtrailists.
“That person was mid wing, way behind the engine. About on one of the exit row window seats. You just never know when your time is up!”
When the long bony finger points at you then you are it.
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