Here's something you don't see every day!

[Haertig]

Interesting happening around here today. We were in the house and heard a loud boom. Couldn't determine what it was. Turns out it was a Boeing 777 coming out of Denver International Airport enroute to Hawaii that had it's engine explode and debris from the exploded engine landed about a mile from our house. Right in the middle of town. Destroyed a vehicle and some property, but nobody was injured on the ground. The plane successfully returned to the airport and landed safely.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2021/02/20/united-plane-debris-falls-broomfield/
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/02...united-airlines-denver-international-airport/

 

[Weedygarden]

Interesting happening around here today. We were in the house and heard a loud boom. Couldn't determine what it was. Turns out it was a Boeing 777 coming out of Denver International Airport enroute to Hawaii that had it's engine explode and debris from the exploded engine landed about a mile from our house. Right in the middle of town. Destroyed a vehicle and some property, but nobody was injured on the ground. The plane successfully returned to the airport and landed safely.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2021/02/20/united-plane-debris-falls-broomfield/
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/02...united-airlines-denver-international-airport/

It is all over the news and I wondered how close it was to you. United has several homeowners that will need to be reimbursed for damage to their homes.

 

[Haertig]

"Fly the Friendly Skies with Ignited Airlines"

 

[Neb]

"Fly the Friendly Skies with Ignited Airlines"

Made me think.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

Glad you're safe. I saw it on the news feeds also, wondered if you or Weedy lived close.

 

[Weedygarden]

Glad you're safe. I saw it on the news feeds also, wondered if you or Weedy lived close.

I don't live close, but I am house sitting this week, much closer to the location than if I was home. I did not hear a thing, just got local news alerts on my phone.

 

[Peanut]

couple of engine pics. The first pic... the guy in the yellow vest looks like part of a meme. The ring on the right of that first pic is real. The bottom pic is someone shooting a vid out the window of the plane. It's a screen save of the first frame of the video.

 

[Spikedriver]

Those passengers and crew are so lucky the wing wasn't damaged...

Of course it was a United plane. I hate United. I detest United. I avoid them whenever possible. And I'll avoid them more now...

 

[Weedygarden]

As we are seeing news updates on this situation, United can be very, very relieved that this was not more serious. It was so close to being really bad. People on board had to be so scared and sure they were going to die!

 

[SheepDog]

That 777 is rated to be flyable half way across the Pacific ocean on one engine. Just like the 747 before it they test it before they certify the aircraft for trans-oceanic trips. The passengers were in more danger from shrapnel than from running on one engine. Oh, the engines are at least partly shielded to keep debris from entering the airframe.
Now if they made the planes out of the same material that they use on the little black boxes... we wouldn't have mid air accidents, because they couldn't get off the ground!

 

[Neb]

That 777 is rated to be flyable half way across the Pacific ocean on one engine. Just like the 747 before it they test it before they certify the aircraft for trans-oceanic trips. The passengers were in more danger from shrapnel than from running on one engine. Oh, the engines are at least partly shielded to keep debris from entering the airframe.
Now if they made the planes out of the same material that they use on the little black boxes... we wouldn't have mid air accidents, because they couldn't get off the ground!

Correct me if I am wrong

Those are GE engines.

Ben

 

[Supervisor42]

That 777 is rated to be flyable half way across the Pacific ocean on one engine. Just like the 747 before it they test it before they certify the aircraft for trans-oceanic trips. The passengers were in more danger from shrapnel than from running on one engine. Oh, the engines are at least partly shielded to keep debris from entering the airframe.
Now if they made the planes out of the same material that they use on the little black boxes... we wouldn't have mid air accidents, because they couldn't get off the ground!

Yes. Little is known by the general public about how much testing goes into turbo-fan and other jet engines if they should fail. Lots of engines were destroyed in the design phase to insure this.
Even with catastrophic engine failure, no debris penetrated the airframe. The plane can easily and safely fly, fully loaded, on one engine.

Correct me if I am wrong

Those are GE engines.
Ben

The engines on that one were Pratt and Whitney engines.
Also not heard on the news:
1. Extremely cold temperatures will adversely affect high-strength tempered metal parts.
2. A large chunk of ice going into the air intake of an engine can cause it to fail catastrophically.

 

[SheepDog]

GE engines are used only if the customer specifies them. The GE engines are rated differently than most engines in that their rated output is very close to the maximum output. The Rolls and Westinghouse engines rated power can be exceeded by 10 to 15%. The GE engines start vibrating at only 5% over rated power. (my dad was an engineer for Boeing and I had a close friend that was a QC tech. My dad wouldn't even buy GE light bulbs. And Tom rode the 747 at the panic lift-off tests and with the GE engines it scared him! The other engines were quiet and smooth the whole ride.

 

[Alaskajohn]

If you think about it, the excellent safety record achieved by the airline industry is remarkable considering how you are just a failed rivet away from catastrophic disaster.

And yes, United Airlines sucks and is always my airline of last resort.

 

[phideaux]

Chinese company Haier bought GE in 2016.

Jim

 

[Weedygarden]

https://www.9news.com/article/news/...nited/73-f1232fc1-a794-4114-b7da-9791711bf26f
What about the neighbors? Did they experience emotional trauma as well? Haertig, did you?

 

[Haertig]

For these people claiming "emotional trauma" and suing, I might suggest that they are not mentally capable of handling life. Nothing is ever guaranteed. You could die at any minute from a wide range of causes. They were not harmed, except in the lower IQ areas of their fragile minds. I wonder if they also sued the grocery stores claiming emotional trauma when they ran out of toilet paper?

No emotional trauma for me. Put me on a jury where these fragile idiots are trying to enrich themselves and I'll laugh them right out of court. Leave the suing to people who were actually harmed in some event.