1 dead after jetliner apparently blows an engine in flight

Assoc. Press ^ | 4/17/2018 | AP

[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."

[kiryandil]

Go Navy.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There have been unscrupulous sellers who will take an out of spec scrap part and put a serviceable tag on it and sell it.

[Kay]

Sad and true.

[alephnull]

Lookup Southwest 3472 from 2016. Almost identical failure.

[the OlLine Rebel]

There was one just the other day.

[noiseman]

”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.”

Again, there is no narrowbody aircraft, whether Airbus or Boeing, that is carrying anywhere near 500,000 pounds of fuel. I’m not sure what you’re referring to when you’re just saying “the Airbus.” Which model?

The comparable Airbus models to the B737 would be in the A320 family, and they carry a similar quantity of fuel. Very few aircraft even have maximum gross weights (which includes the full-up weight of the aircraft with fuel, passengers, and baggage) in the 500,000 pound range, much less carry that much in fuel.

[Hostage]

Believe me, I know that to be the case. That is SOP in China.

The Chinese regulations require entire aircraft to be put out of service after a specified number of years. Those aircraft are put in mothballs but the parts are looted and just as you said, testing and inspection tags are attached to them.

Aviation parts are a big business. Parts are priced at a premium precisely because of the QA/QC pedigree requirements. The profits make it very tempting for criminals to try and sell used parts as new.

The FAA regulations for parts pedigrees are extremely strict in the USA and set the standards for the world. Without such strict FAA oversight, air travel would be much riskier.

I am part of an aviation parts association. From time to time I get notices and emails from the association. They are talking about using Block Chain Technology for tracking the entire life of FAA listed critical aviation parts. I think it’s a great idea. It could lower the price of parts and increase the security of the traceback.

[no-s]

ah, perfect outcome.

[Amberdawn]

There was a case of two pilots shutting down circuit breakers on their jet, a National Airlines DC-10 on a flight to California which caused an engine to shred itself, like this one. The engine also shot shrapnel into the cabin, breaking a window, from which a male passenger was pulled out. His body was never found. http://www.planecrashinfo.com/unusual.htm It happened Nov. 3rd, 1973, a day before my 6th birthday. :-)

[Amberdawn]

Hey Mr. Fields, did you know that Philadelphia Airport has never had a fatal accident? :-)

[Amberdawn]

I’m sorry to hear about your friend and his family. A customer of my Brothers from Scott’s Valley, Ca. also died on that flight.

[ilovesarah2012]

Gremlin? Sorry- just reminds me of the Twilight Zone with William Shatner.

[SMGFan]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wells-fargo-vp-dead-southwest-plane-emergency-landing-article-1.3939835

[Blood of Tyrants]

I used to work commercial aviation and I personally saw a mechanic for an African cargo airline go get parts off a scrap 707. But it was an African plane that had only a ferry certificate to get it to the US and back to Africa.

[Hostage]

It was really sad. They were a beautiful family. And the cause of the accident was so avoidable.

[Hostage]

Some old parts can be refurbished but they still have to go through the entire quality process again. The problem is some criminals try to attach paperwork as if all the requirements are met to put the part back into inventory.

[whistleduck]

just depends on the grit

[Amberdawn]

Yes, my Brothers service writer at his shop was really shocked by it. What those poor people went through is unimaginable. The pilots did all they could.

[JME_FAN]

Looks like a JT8D-200 series engine, manufactured by Pratt & Whitney. I believe a like a fan blade failure occurred, perhaps from a bird strike. Appears that the containment case failed.

[rx]

Hmmmmmm.     I gather your commercial aviation crash reference has expunged the demise of Obama Birth Certificate production Director Loretta Fuddy's on 12/11/13 as a consequence of a plane "ditched onto open ocean waters" (which was a lie), whose engine was claimed to have had a catastrophic failure (about which the NTSB also lied).

Eh?

In a February, 2009 commercial aviation crash, Beverly Eckert, who was an effective, prominent spokeswoman and co-chairwoman of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee after her husband had been killed in those attacks, died in the week after shaking hands and speaking with Barack Obama.   Bev wore the red sweater that day.

That Barry sure had a great aviation record!   The NTSB under Obama was known to falsify evidence and the FAA would run cover-up operations that made a mere aviation "accident" something for which he'd never have to answer.

Since he claimed to be "really good at killing people," it's hard to know whether it was safer, aviation-wise, to be Barry's friend or adversary. At least no planes were brought down during his administration by sparking wires in a center wing fuel tank or perhaps an errant USS Seawolf missile that would culminate in a CIA-demonstrated "overpressure event".   Whew!

Is it any wonder Qanon's #259 instructs: "7/10 plane crashes are targeted kills."   See!   Barry's fatality-to-trip ratio isn't nearly as high as some others'!   President Trump's is currently still running higher.

Lesson: Even if the crash isn't staged for a politically-beneficial, election-related purpose, there's still a good chance a well-oiled cover-up can be employed to help with those pesky election-related consequences! (...which is a corollary to Emanuel's, "Never let a good crisis go to waste!")