Posted on 06/26/2025 3:10:09 PM PDT by Angelino97
Boeing and DEI again...?
Just a random smoking right engine. No problem, continue to assigned destination.
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I’m sure it was scary, but an engine catching fire is not that unusual, and certainly the headline of “terror... as plane catches fire midflight” makes it seem a lot worse and dangerous than it was.
I gag whenever I see that. The airport was originally named for Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.), a hero in the fight against Communism.
I am of the opiniin we should pass a law that NO politician except maybe Presidents gets ANYTHING named after them. Name things after fallen soldiers...only.
Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Franklin.
I should have shot Clay and hanged Calhoun:Andrew Jackson.
McCarran Airport will always be McCarran Airport, just as Saigon will always be Saigon. To me...
I've been noticing lately that it is rare now to run across a headline that isn't using some major hyperbole. Not just for 'tabloid' type news sites like Daily Mail, but even supposedly serious conservative news and commentary sites.
I guess it is mostly about 'Generating the Clicks'.... But I think a part of it is that the 'journalists' and editors don't actually know the real meaning of a lot of the words they use.
Another headline using 'Terror', at the top of the sidebar for this article is "Brad Pitt's home terrorized by thieves who scaled fence to break in".... Yet down in the article itself, they indicate that no one was even home when it happened.
No, it wasn't a Boeing it was an Airbus A321. Simple research would tell you that.
Also, if it was a Boeing jet it would be all over the headline of the story..
Coulda been snakes.
We have Aaron Burr to thank for shooting Al Hamilton.
Good job Aaron. Al wanted George W. to be a king.
Happened to me on SWA back in the 80s flying PHX-OKC. I was on the side where the engine was shooting sparks & the pilot came back to observe. We returned to PHX to be put on another plane. Finally got to OKC around midnight.
Did the “No Smoking” light turn off?
Fuel in engine housing ignited, drips collected, then flamed.
Any leak or excess supply of fuel, can cause un-burned fuel to collect - enough of barely a mist on occasion - that will ignite. Sometimes occurs when an engine is restarted / started.
Fuel lines; fuel controls; ck; leaks could be intermittent - requiring some vibration to expose. There was obviously an engine area fire. Tear down of engine, required; close look at diffuser(s), required.
Harry Reid International Airport needs a name change.
Yeah, don’t like Hamilton.
He had retired in disgrace by that time.
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