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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1. Its terrible that a person was killed, but the flying debris could have cut holes in the wing, causing the plane to crash.
2. Inspectors will have a high % opportunity to figure out exactly what happened since it landed safely.
The airline would have had to re-upholster the seat and call in a bio-hazard team to remove my waste once we landed.
You can say that again. That is by far the worst major airport I have been in in the United States - although I admit I have not been in anywhere near all of them.
Plus MD-80s have 2 rear-mounted engines. Not under the wing.
Interesting. Never knew of it. The first thing I noticed was the ring or fairing (whatever the term is) that circles the front of the engine being completely-gone.
I did see a plane with a turbine failure, and it was a mess, but it didn’t have the option (being a single engine plane with the engine enclosed in the fuselage) of that.
I would definitely rather have the engine rip off than spray the passenger compartment with blade fragments.
The best laid plans of mice and men.
Can you answer the question... how much fuel in metric tons is carried on each wing of this plane? And where is all that exhaust being expelled? They say it is 250 metric tons of fuel total on an Airbus.
There’s no ring to catch anything. If those compressor blades or turbine blades go, but especially the compressor blades, the force will send them flying out.
As another poster said, don’t sit beside the engines.
When working as a Deputy Sheriff I went to an accident where a car had rear ended a parked semi truck. Decapitated the cars driver, her head was across the highway it was so bad. Told dispatcher she was deceased ..... was scolded by the dispatcher that I was not authorized to make that determination to wait for the justice of the peace and just secure the scene. Told dispatcher to send another unit as the victims head had flown across the interstate and I couldn’t secure both scenes alone and I would start CPR till the JP arrived ..... I still have that letter of reprimand from the sheriff proudly displayed on my “I love me” wall in my den....
Probably breaking compressor blades, and that’s never a good thing heh.
turbine blades are not steel but rather nickel based super alloys
Andrew “Dice” Clay used to do a long list of the attributes of the Philly population, all bad, and then he’d say “and that’s the chicks.”
I think one of the things NTSB will be investigating is whether sub-quality counterfeit parts made it into the maintenance supply flow.
Pencil line drawn on a hot section blade and it will crack right on the line after a few tens of hours.
That’s probably what it was. The noise and shuddering were the scariest part, as the two remaining engines were adequate to get back to the hazard vehicle-lined airport runway.
Where's your thrust vector, Victor? That's just as funny.
It could be defective Chinese steel and coins.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40421811
In this case S#!t happened. When the engine is spinning at operational RPMs anything that upsets the balance can be catastrophic. A bearing could fail, a turbine bucket fails, it happens and is not all that uncommon.
The engine housing is designed to help contain the parts as they spray around but that is not failsafe.
The NTSB will definitely look at the maintenance records. The high stress components are inspected visually almost every week and undergo NDI check periodically. Military engines are scrutinized much more carefully than their civilian counterparts. Military places a premium on reliability, airlines, profit.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once.
So here you go.
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