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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Still safer than Uber on autopilot!!!
Don’t sit by the propellers on those puddle jumpers either....
If you think there's a Chinese connection, particularly to the single-crystal fan and compressor blades, show it.
WOW. That is NOT gonna buff out.
Tweets at the time indicate she was dead on the plane.
Correct. US airlines fly almost one trillion passenger miles each year and this is the first fatality since 2009.
No it’s not.
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Favorite passenger airplane of all time. Eastern 401 being a very tragic combination of mismatched autopilot-related computers and pilot inattention due to the nose gear landing light bulb being burned-out.
There had been an alert to watch out for counterfeit aircraft bolts some years back.
I used to test-run them - not for the faint of heart.
Sudden fan failure spinning at such high speeds will rip the engine right off the pylon out on the wing. That is far preferable than the entire wing structure folding up from the torque if the thing stayed attached.
Single-crystal? Please elaborate.
Video on plane w oxygen mask use.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AllanBell247/status/986289350211244032/video/1
As multiple posters have already pointed out, you have no idea how jet engines are made. Lets make it simple. No, it had nothing to do with Chinese steel. But if it makes you sleep well to think that, then go for it.
“Tweets at the time indicate she was dead on the plane.”
Not surprising, given the nature of the shrapnel from the engine.
Yes, it is. Stop it.
“I just started reading Michael Crichtons Air Frame that has a good description of what happens when a turbine comes apart in mid-flight.”
I recently read that one myself. It renewed my faith in the robustness of passenger jets.
Chinese did produce some counterfeit aircraft bolts some years ago. Lower grade steel with the high grade aircraft markings on the head.
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