Good day
This Boing 737 engine fell off just as it took to the air, the engine fell on the runway the pilot was able to still fly the plane, turned it around and landed safely, hats off to the pilot.
Scary stuff!!!
Mike
Should use CA next time…
Thats crazy!!! And I was getting over my fear of flying. Well i guess back to road trips.
Good work by the crew, but when and where did this happen?
I don’t have any fear of flying. It’s crashing that scares the XXXX out of me.
It happend in Cape Town South Africa end of last year. the airline has since gone under.
Maybe they were trying to cut fuel costs?
The word on the street is that the maintenance wasn’t performed properly, and the attachment points of the engine to the wing were not tightened properly. However, the “official” newspaper excuse for this was that the engine ingested a bird, and “engines are designed to fall away after taking damage, so that no further damage to the wing can take place”. I had a good laugh…
In some parts of the world the bugs are bigger than some birds…how will they explain that one away? LOL
Every take a Pine Beetle in the head at 65 mph? I have, luckily I had a full face helmet on, it darn near took my head off. I had to flip my visor up and stop to clean the carnage off the helmet. I thought I was hit a small bird.
Got hit by a June Bug several years ago. I was running about 70 on the interstate and it hit me right were the helmet ended and my forehead began. I still have a scar from it.
Well, I can’t see the aft mountings in those pics, but the fwd ones tell a lot.
You can clearly see the outboard fwd mounting is intact, with its bushing still in place, whilst the inner mounting has sheared. This would tend to indicate that the outboard bolt had either not been fitted, or if it was, it wasn’t locked and worked loose, eventually falling free. The torque of the engine at take-off power probably placed a high assymetric loading on the inner mounting, causing it to fail, allowing the engine to drop forward.
If I recall correctly, the rear mounting is nothing more than an alignment pin, which will have simply disengaged as the engine fell away.
The pilot did a superb job in handling this event, but with the benefit of some accident investigation experience, I’d have to say that poor maintenance procedures were directly, or indirectly, to blame for this.
If the airline has now gone bust, it may have been experiencing difficulties at the time of this incident, which usually leads to shortcutting in maintenance and training.
Note to self - remember to torque engine mount bolts.
Soulcrusher
Hence the screen name roadkill? [:-^]
That would really boost your confidence in the airline.
Mckay[C):-)]
If it hit a bird, where’s the damage to the stator and fan?
Took a Palmetto bug on the windscreen while travelling Florida’s panhandle. Darn thing looks like a giant cockroach, and hit so hard I thought the screen would crack. Without the protection I believe it would have come close to taking me right off the bike.
I caught a June bug in the neck at highway speed 30 years ago…there is still a discolored spot to the left of the Adam’s Apple…didn’t bleed…but left a whelt that lasted a loooooooong time!
…and it HURT!
I hate it when that happens. It really takes the fun out of flying.
The passengers exiting the aircraft can be quite harsh with their comments.
How could anything like this possibly happen? What! no maintenance at all. If it happened, it could have been hanging by a thread!
LOL… that sounds like the “Front Fell Off” type of excuse…