Passenger Video of Engine on Fire
“Heavy Mayday”
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Boeing Suspends Aircraft With Pratt & Whitney 4000 Engines
Boeings woes continue as the company suspends 777s after Engine Failure on United Flight 328.
Boeing suspended operations for more than 100 of its aircraft Sunday after an engine on a United Airlines flight from Denver caught fire and fell apart, scattering debris in a Colorado neighborhood before the plane landed safely.
The suspensions apply to the model airplane used in Saturday’s flight to Hawaii, the 777 powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines, the company said in a statement.
Video from a passenger on United Flight 328 — which was carrying 231 people to Honolulu on Saturday — showed one of the plane’s flaming engines falling apart in the sky. A pilot reported a “mayday” and told air traffic control that the plane had had an “engine failure,” authorities said.
Large pieces of metal fell into a neighborhood in Broomfield, Colorado; there were no reports of injuries. The pilot turned the plane around and landed safely at Denver International Airport.
It’s amazing that no one got hurt.
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plane crash rates per model
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Concorde and 737 max are bookends…statistically. Lovely
Took off from JFK two years ago coming back from Rome. Boeing 777.
BANG! Like a shotgun sound. One engine dead.
Looped around and was on the ground in 20 minutes surrounded by fire engines.
It’s a problem that you can’t drive to Europe.
If I was a couple States aways can I still file as hit by something?
JUST kidding! Lets see if any ambulance chasers emerge.
Commonly known in pilot circles as an ‘aluminum shower’!
No one got hurt because that plane was made to take an engine exploding and still land which is the amazing part of the story.
Which of course didn’t prevent any injuries or deaths from falling debris. For that, United and Boeing can thank blind luck or divine intervention. Same thing.
Actually, they can take off on one engine, which is much more amazing.
What’s amazing is that no jail time or even prosecutions have arrived for the multi-millionaire executives who brought us the 737 Max, and now this.
No one in the American oligarchy predator class EVER goes to jail. Do they?
They gave the ex-CEO a huge golden parachute, if memory serves. Yeah, 62 million.
The reliability of this era of plane is amazing(The 737Max…not so much). The older 737 that had a cowl blow off landed fine as well since the pilot was on top of things fast. The faster these blades spin, the lighter they need to be and the hotter they run. If they are hollow they are more fragile. So, all those engines probably need to be retired. If the engine hours are near the same on the 747 and the 777, that would be interesting that they basically expire
starting to think is just safer to not fly boeing airplanes
Yeah looks like someone did not fasten a panel or something and air pressure ripped it off. Ive been wondering if there would be issues with safety and maintenance as the industry comes back. Confusion and lack of organization etc. however it plays out its still not good for boeing.
Why too early to establish the cause. Wait for the report.
i’m not looking to assign blae. boeing will igure it out. I have no doubt. The issue was more of sarchasm and frustration that we seem to have multiple models experiencing some type of failure. You simply don’t hear the same stories and certainly the ame frequency when it comes to Airbus. If we have to do a post mortem, its too late. The problem already occurred. Remind anyone of the 737-max issue?
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Engine explosions have happened in Airbus too.
The one before was an Air France Airbus in 2017. The engine blew up over Greenland no less.
No, the engine can blow up, internally.
There are pictues of broken turbine blades.
What is unusual is the casing blew off–it shouldn’t.
We know it blew up. That is evident but we don’t know why yet. To determine that takes investigating and that takes time. The ring blowing off shows it was a more violent than average one.
On twitter there a photo clearly showing a broken blade in fan and a hole in the side of the plane
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Correction to first tweet. Upon landing it is clear how bad this could have been. The fuselage did indeed sustain a puncture. via
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I just noticed one other thing, that I’m sure others have pointed out elsewhere but I missed earlier. That looks like two fractured fan blades. One completely, the second one partially. PW4000 engine series worldwide probably rightly getting a hard look.
Fortunately there wasn’t decompression.
Jet engines are usually quite reliable. Give them a few days to gather some facts for a preliminary finding. The only thing (as shown in previous disasters) is that you don’t want the people gathering the facts to have conflicts of interest.