Engine explodes on Denver to Honolulu flight.
31 Comments on It took them almost 30 seconds to answer a MAYDAY call?!
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HO-REE-CHIT!
That there is why you should drive if you want to go to Honolulu…
Damn. That’s a tough engine. Blew the shroud off, caught fire and is still trying to operate like nothing happened.
‘Merica.
Sum Ting Wong
Never use Autozone parts.
Somebody’s got an impressive “tire” swing!
Anymouse- LMAO!
I had forgotten about Cory Booker and his friend TBone
Now that looked like a pants-load of fun.
If you ever plan to fly….take your own parachute…
Achmed, the engine troop, dropped a number two in #2.
The turbine was still spinning and looked mostly intact. That makes me think the issue was the enclosure itself. Possibly not fastened down completely.
Ever heard of the chicken cannon?
Aircraft engineers developed a device to simulate aircraft components getting hit by large birds like geese. The cannon uses compressed air to shoot a raw roasting chicken at engines/windshields, etc., set up in test fixtures at roughly the velocity of an airplane in flight.
My professor at engineering school told a story of the time somebody accidently loaded a frozen chicken and it completely disintegrated a jet engine, shooting turbine vanes everywhere.
Left Rudder, Dammit!
30 seconds to answer the mayday call? So? The tower can’t do much of anything . Until you hit the ground.
30 seconds;; just enough time to say the Rosary. Three times!
“… I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!”
izlamo delenda est …
I see they are already hiring jet engine mechanics based on “equity”, now. Get used to it, America!
CAPTAIN: “Attention passengers – when we reach the ground, we’ll need everyone to evacuate quickly.”
ME: “TOO late – I’ve already run the checklist for THAT procedure!!!” 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
Missing from the story? They pilots landed an enormous aircraft packed with passengers safely.
American pilots? +10.
American aircraft? +10.
*Biden hasn’t had time to fuck that up yet.
“The turbine was still spinning and looked mostly intact.”
No. The Turbine is most likely made from Inconel. And if you’ve ever tried to machine it you quickly realize the devil came up with Inconel. I use to fly a lot. No more.
So, if the fuselage needed Oxygen, all the sheep on board would have to remove their stupid goddamn masks to apply the O2.
S M A R T thinking our federal government.
NOTHING gets by them…sigh
It looked to me like it was severely damaged, out of balance and probably just windmilling.
@Jethro – the chicken cannon was developed at the FAA’s NAFEC Natl Aviation Facility Experimental Center. Pomona NJ, west of Atlantic City NJ
It’s now called FAATC
C’mon TRF, most of the fire was contained inside the engine.
It only exploded a lil’ bit.
Just a smooch.
I would think there is a way to shut the fuel off to an engine. People say a plane can fly on one engine, and they obviously can for a period of time. However, those wings are the fuel tanks, if they can’t shut the fuel off to a flaming engine they can’t be half way to Hawaii and think they can get to safety with a flaming engine burning into the fuel tank.
If you listen to the tape, the pilot initially reported engine failure in an almost conversational tone, which is easy for ATC to miss. “Mayday” was not actually called until 15 seconds into the recording. ATC then responded within 10 seconds with a request to repeat transmission.
Hardly a 30 second delay.
This just in… that cowling has been claimed by Jasten’s boyfriend as his new cock-ring.
That should give you all some idea of how big that elastic asshole really is!
I wonder if they got the shit stains out of all of the seats?
“There’s Someone on the Wing”
You gotta keep in mind that all the parts in these things are most likely supplied by the lowest bidder.
2 engines minus 1 engine is racist.