Just wan’t you to know that the wounded SW jet was brought in by a ex-Navy pilot! Go Navy!
Yeah that was some crazy stuff right there. been awhile since people have gotten killed on a passenger plane.
EA-6B instructor. Her husband is a SWA Captain as well.
last time that a person or people killed on a passenger jet is supposedly 2009
She did a great job in bringing it down safely.
Jim [cptn]
Well-done, indeed. Kudos too to the folk near the casualty who reported tried very hard to help. [Y]
I was on a flight this morning. As the cockpit crew was lighting #1, I heard a lady in the row behind me say “I wonder where the engine piece will come through this plane”. I couldn’t believe it.
I’d best not say out loud what I felt like doing.
Umm, really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Algerian_Air_Force_Il-76_crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratov_Airlines_Flight_703
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Aseman_Airlines_Flight_3704
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-Bangla_Airlines_Flight_211
Shall I go on?
for US airliner death.
Also, I was surprised to hear that much damage was from loss of one compressor blade. I thought specs were that engine had to be armored to withstand a blade failure. The catastropic engine damages I have seen were generally from disintegration of the whole disk.
Sully Sullenberger now shares the top of the pyramid with another amazing pilot: Tammie Jo Shults!
I just found this link to an article about what’s supposed to happen when there’s an engine failure:
Don’t waste your time reading the article I just linked. Despire a trailer stating it was about the engine failure it wasn’t and is nothing but a useless recap of what we already know.
Ha! Funny timing becuase I was just posting a reply to say that though I’m not qualified to fly jets, as a pilot I’ve read enough mainstream articles about aviation over the decades to say most of them are pure rubbish, poorly written by non-aviators and poorly researched if researched at all.
I was going to mention that I thought this one was actually pretty good and say thanks for posting it. [:)]
This accident made me think of the delta md88 in 1996 when a mother and child were killed. As sad as it is, it happed early enough during takeoff allowing the pilot to abort.
Stuck in my head and I avoid sitting in the back of md88s and L1011s, as irrational as that sounds
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-07/news/mn-22049_1_jet-engine
Maybe they could creat the equivilant of a transmission blanket for jet engines, though that would contain all the energy and probably blow the wing apart…pick your poison.
There’s a good demonstration here of why the design of engines hanging in separate pods has endured, as opposed to a lot of earlier designs like Concorde where the engines were paired up.
Im not paying too much attention to the mechanical explanations until we’ve heard from the experts. One doozy so far was that jet engines are designed to fail inwards when they blow up.
Its only a matter of time before a jet swallows a drone.
Heroic pilot.
I avoid MD-80/DC-9 aircraft whenever I can, and anything Airbus. Give me a Boeing anytime. My first flight ever was after basic training in February 1967. Flew in a 707 from San Antonio to St. Louis. Flew on 727s back when you walked up the stairs in the tail.
How does this “avoiding aircraft types” thing work? Genuinely curious. I certains try to avoid certain airlines, but that’s more service than equipment.
Would almost bet money the engine blowed from poor maintenance or lack thereof. People don’ care any more just want a paycheck and they will do the least they can get away with to get it certification don’ mean jack.
That’s nonsense. Certified mechanics take their work extremely seriously.
Sure they do.