Boeing 747 Cargo Plane Engine Explodes in the Netherlands
On Saturday a Boeing 777 exploded in the US.
Today, Engine Parts Drop From Boeing 747 Cargo Plane in the Netherlands.
Dutch authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane dropped engine parts shortly after takeoff from Maastricht airport.
The Longtail Aviation Flight 5504 cargo plane scattered mostly small metal parts over the southern Dutch town of Meerssen on Saturday, causing damage and injuring a woman.
The Bermuda-registered plane, which was headed from Maastricht to New York, was powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, a smaller version of those on a United Airlines Boeing 777 involved in an incident in Colorado on Saturday.
In the Dutch incident, witnesses heard one or two explosions shortly after take-off and the pilot was informed by air traffic control that an engine was on fire, Hella Hendriks, a spokeswoman for Maastricht airport, said.
“The photos indicate they were parts of engine blade, but that’s being investigated,” she said. “Several cars were damaged and bits hit several houses. Pieces were found across the residential neighbourhood on roofs, gardens and streets.”
Dozens of pieces fell, Hendriks said, measuring about 5cm wide and up to 25cm long. The aircraft landed safely at Liege airport in Belgium, 19 miles (30 km) south of the Dutch border.
Anything Can Happen Once
Anything can happen once, but twice in three days involving the same engine is another matter.
Every plane with a Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine should immediately be grounded.
That’s the only safe and sane thing to do. Indeed, Boeing has urged airlines to do just that.
After this second incident, I am sure that will happen.
Passenger Takes Video of Boeing 777 Engine Catching Fire and Breaking Apart
In case you missed it, please see Passenger Takes Video of Boeing 777 Engine Catching Fire and Breaking Apart
Once again, no one was killed from these scattered parts. That’s amazing luck.
Mish
The plane in the photo is not Longtail cargo plane, it was wrong photo that was used by Guardian news and photo was already corrected later. link to theguardian.com
The 747 is likely powered by PW 4056’s and the 777 is powered by PW4090’s. These engines are very different in size and therefore share few if any parts.
This one happened 34 months ago and nobody mentioned it… Powered by Pratt & Whitney JT8D.
The JT8D was developed as a military engine in the 1950’s. Maybe it is time to retire them.
Fck Boeing !…. Long live Airbus…. Not that I give a shit anyway…
What are the odds TWO Pratt-Whitney engines failed in one day? This does not sound like a design issue. I suspect a company involved with the maintenance did not follow instructions, or the maintenance schedules were relaxed to reduce operational costs.
It’s a design issue
That’s what I was thinking, or recently faulty part replaced. Maybe it didn’t like the cold weather.
So after 20 years, if a cars engine blows up – It must be the manufacturers fault, NOT perhaps the maintenance of the car? Oh, I see now…
They all break at some point, Rolls Royce having terrible problems with the Trent 700, GE engine blew up on an 777 in 2016 etc. Now it’s P&W’s turn…
How often do jet engines fail?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was quoted as stating turbine engines have a failure rate of one per 375,000 flight hours, compared to one every 3,200 flight hours for aircraft piston engines.
Boeing, boeing, gone!
I am sure the taxpayers will be forced to bail them out as the lack of reliability of their engineering continues to be exposed.
When in reality, the predator executives at Boeing should have been “bailed out” for felony criminal charges, including at least 3rd degree murder re the 737 Max. The rich are above the law in the US ….. how obvious can it be ?
the rich, powerful and well connected are above the law in pretty much every country…quite pretending like the U.S. is unique in this regard
The Guardian noted a woman in Meersen was injured by the falling debris. link to zerohedge.com
Mish you really should reference the engine manufacturer in the headline. Boeing does not make the engine.
It is in the article. If someone only reads headlines they are putting in the sweat equity to earn their ignorance. Further, I heard it was Boeing who made the decision to allow the engines entry into their planes. It probably isn’t a good look for them to point the finger at P&W right now, especially not with the growing track record of Boeing 7×7 planes and parts showering the globe.
Actually, in some cases the airlines choose the engines.
Correct. In most instances where the plane maker offers an engine choice, the customer is who usually chooses the engine maker. They would normally get to pick either a GE, Pratt and Whitney, or Rolls Royce model, or one that is built in a JV partnerships with other companies headed by one of these three companies. (It’s actually even more complicated than that as the customer also gets to choose the engine’s thrust rating, plus whether to sign up for a long-term maintenance and monitoring agreement with the engine maker.) Engines are usually the single most expensive component in a commercial aircraft.
Are you saying all this is Trump’s fault??
I don’t think Mish said it, but I do believe it is Trump’s fault. He should have won easily, but his poor handling of both Covid and Floyd cost the party heavily, and in the process he fractured the Republican Party, and cost them not only the White House, but the Senate as well, particularly when he sabotaged the Republican Senatorial candidates in the Georgia special election. I don’t see the Republicans regrouping for at least a dozen years, and the world will be very different by then.
Rick Scott, Chairman of the RNC is trying to stop the civil war. He recognizes that a divided party has no hope. Good luck to him with that. Trump remains a power figure, and I expect that he will fight hard to prevent the party from reuniting.
It’s not racism if it is against white people, apparently…
Does Boeing make the engine and service it regularly OR did they fasten it to the aircraft and sell it years ago? See where I’m going???
I added an addendum to my Coca-Cola post involving Tengen, Eddie, and another reader.
Scroll to the bottom.
Racism is a very real and deep-seated issue in the US. Suggest you do a post on what libertarians advocate to help address.
As a Libertarian, I will give you an answer. Libertarianism is not related to this subject at all, and doesn’t lead to any conclusion any different that any other sane political doctrine leads to.
Racism has no place in America, nor anywhere else. It should be confronted and dealt with wherever it is found. Defining racism is simple enough; racism is forming opinions of people, and making decisions on them using race as a factor. Targeting white people, and telling them that only white people can be racist, or that all white people are racist is a clearly a policy that is racist to it’s core. Since racism is to be condemned anywhere it is found, it should be condemned here.
If I do something, or say something, that is racist, I should be condemned for it, but don’t condemn me just because you don’t like the color of my skin.
I worked hard and have led a successful life, but recognize that some of my success came from opportunities that were available to me due to the color of my skin that were not as available to others. I also recognize this is still very much an issue in the US, maybe even getting worse.
I appreciate your answer with respect to libertarianism and racism. However white racism is not the problem, it is a dog whistle that detracts from the real problem. To be serious about racism, libertarians need to actively confront racism, including blogging and writing with equal or greater passion about real racist issues. We are an evolving society. In this day in age, it is not right that schools are named after slave owners. We can teach history and give these historic people a prominent role in our history, but to idolize them is not right.
There certainly is a PERCEPTION that racism is getting worse. The question is….is that perception reality based?
I’d argue that by just about any objective metric you’d care to look at , that racism….or at least the effects of racism on African-Americans…….is a tiny fraction of what it was when I was a kid. I can remember “separate but equal” schools and “colored” bathrooms in public places. Real apartheid, in other words. Jim Crow.
We’ve had AFDC, SNAP. Affirmative Action in hiring for generations now…..it’s gone up and down, but it’s still ongoing….We have laws that are supposed to guarantee fair access to credit…..
We feed poor kids two meals a day at school in most places to try to encourage participation in public schooling.
The push to topple statues and rename schools is what it is….which is primarily dissatisfaction among what passes for the black intelligentsia these days….it’s a burr under their saddle, for sure.
Schools are often named for famous people. We could number them all, if that helps…We can rename them for “deserving persons of color” from history. I’d argue that makes little difference in a world where fewer than 20% of black kids can read or do science and math at grade level.
And I’d argue that this sad situation is hard to blame on the schools…because parents have to do their part…..immigrant parents seem to get that.
The best stats you can find show that violence by police against ALL races has dropped a lot over the last 30 years, including against African-Americans. Viral videos are compelling, but hardly representative of anything other than the infinitesimally small comparative number of cases they actually represent. Police arrest 44 million people a year. The demographics of crime, whether you like them or not, means that black people’s lives (and hispanic people’s lives, fwiw) intersect with police more than whites.
Social media is driving a lot of the current race unrest in this country, and other countries. People who think that’s just great…..should wake up and smell the coffee….it isn’t that great.
You don’t know me, and anything I might tell you is suspect anyway, however, I recognize that whatever successes I have had in life are a credit to my ability to work with others, and to build a team of people of all races and genders to work together, plus my ability to treat customers in a way that people of all races and genders feel welcome.
Confronting real racism is an important issue. Imaging racism in every corner detracts from the real problem. One of the wonderful things about the US is that racism is so rare, here. Real racism is common around the globe, even unto the point of “ethnic cleansing”. We should appreciate what we have, and try to make it better, rather than exaggerating the extent of the problem, which only makes the problem worse, not better.
The best solution, by far, is for each person to recognize that they have to take personal responsibility for what they achieve, and that there are enough opportunities out there that every person, if they try, can be successful. Telling every person “You can succeed if you try” is critical. If we instead tell people, “There is racism everywhere, so you are doomed. Don’t even bother trying because you will fail.”, the harm is beyond imaginable, and disparity between the race will grow, not shrink.
Can only imagine having DiAngelo show up at any company I’ve worked for. As consultants go, she would be 100x worse than the Bobs from Office Space. At least with those guys blunt honesty could pay off!
Trader Joe was attacked recently, but it wasn’t from a consulting firm, it was through a chat forum/petition site. This is the most common form of racism attack and it happens all the time.
“After an online petition denounced the company’s use of labels such as Arabian Joe’s, Trader Giotto’s and Trader Joe San as racist because it “exoticizes other cultures,” Trader Joe’s announced that it would keep names that it felt still resonated with customers”.
Once the company falls for the charade, they send in the “Robin DiAngelo” types for the kill. link to nytimes.com
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