https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/us/philadelphia-southwest-flight-emergency-landing/index.html
This is reportedly the first US airline fatality since 2009. Not a good day
https://i.imgur.com/lc97o7N.jpg
Since they still managed to land, I'm supposing that's the rear of the plane all fucked up?
"As the plane is going down, I am literally purchasing internet just so I can get some kind of communication to the outside world," he said.
"Ugh, millennials"
Fucking hell, what way to go.
well that's the weirdest damn airliner tail end i've ever seen then, because it looks a hell of a lot like an exploded turbine on the aircraft's left wing!
That's a picture out of the window of the aircraft of the wing
Uncontained engine failures are nasty things.
This is the first fatality of a passenger. There was another incident were a Southwest plane overshot the runway and ran over a car killing the occupant.
Having the window break next to you, and getting sucked out of it is pretty much the stuff of nightmares.
It for sure is. Major engine failures should be contained to the engine itself and should never breach the housing. Heck, if a engine begins to vibrate too much (sign of inbalance I believe), it should break away (due to shear pins?). If an engine were left to vibrate, it could rip the plane apart. But keep in mind, that's severe vibration.
The NTSB investigation should be interesting. It makes me wonder if the maintenance crew didn't do their job correctly. This 737 is a 700 series so it isn't very old (20 years at most) when compared to most planes.
LiveATC Recordings | LiveATC.net has the full ATC chatter of the emergency as the plane is landing if anyone is interested.
Shouldn't and couldn't are two words you should never use when talking about aviation. Just because it's designed not to do something doesn't mean it can't, and believe me when I say I know all too well about when it can't.
It is pretty much impossible to constantly get sucked out of an open airplane window, sure during the decompression, you CAN get sucked out but the time frame of this happening is super slim.
I saw a video from inside the plane after the explosion of the plane, and barely anything is moving at all, no crazy papers flying around, no oxygen masks getting sucked into the direction of the open hole.
Passengers even tried to shut the hole by putting jackets over it or other items.
In reality the rapid decompression sucked her arm out for a split second but they managed to drag her back in, at this point the window is simply open during the flight.
When a plane decompresses, it's pretty rapid and then that's it. The pressure is equalized. I doubt much air actually entered such a small hole on the side of the plane to create wind inside just because of how aerodynamics works. Plugging it would've really done nothing at that point
There was a flight where the cockpit window was installed backwards/wrong sized bolts holding it in place (Can't remember which) And the pressure of the inside pushing on it forced it out, sucking the pilot out of the plane. But The copilot and a stewardess managed to hang onto his legs while the rest of his body was outside the plane on the nose. They managed to hang onto him until they landed and the dude survived. But once that initial burst of decompression is over, that's pretty much it
Also, I think this is the first time a passenger has died on a Southwest flight due to a fault with the plane
You're thinking of BA Flight 5390.
The whole idea of getting sucked out of a plane midflight is horrifying.
Link to vid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzB8z274TGg
I didn't think Southwest 737s could have such problems as a fan blade falling off, they're typically newer models that are well kept.
On top of that, I'm really surprised that a window on the airplane shattered. I thought they were something like 5 inches thick.
Imagine if they reported every single land vehicle accident like this.
Jet engines are designed to contain fan blade failures, channeling them to the rear. It's much easier to armor the casing of an engine than it is to armor the entire fuselage of the plane. So something either failed to work properly, or this accident was far outside the designed parameter space.
Some informed speculation I've seen is that there was some sort of explosion (or maybe some weird compressor stall) in the combustion chamber, which caused one (or more) fan blades to detach and blow out the front, and then momentum carried it into the plane. That's pure speculation and I'm not an expert myself, but it sounds plausible.
The engine blew up midair and the only casualty was the woman who was sitting right next to the window that was hit. I'd say this went about as well as it could given the circumstances.
Yeah, turbofans are designed to completely contain fan blades detaching, something must have pushed the debris out of the front of the engine for it to have been able to hit the window (which was immediately above the trailing edge of the wind).
It must have been a fluke/freak accident to hit that particular window and to break it.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180417-SFE-Southwest.jpg
Look how far back that window is from where the engine blew. For a piece of debris to hit hard enough to break the whole thing, which is about .9 inches thick including both panes and the empty middle gap, is one in a billion I'm sure. These windows are pretty tough, too
https://i.imgur.com/mX5lR6T.jpg
Southwest had another emergency landing today. Bird strike. Luckily no injuries.
What's really cool is that the pilot who safely landed the plane discussed in this thread is actually a retired navy pilot. SHE was actually one of the first women to fly the F18. Fucking badass.
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-pilot-who-saved-that-southwest-flight-is-a-badass-1825341463
The plane was traveling at nearly 500MPH (800km/h, 430kts) when the engine failure occurred. It is pretty reasonable that air resistance caused it to hit much further back than it otherwise would have.
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