OT: Freaky ****. United flight loses engine. A miracle that plane didn’t go down.

[Brains]

This is why I only fly Spirit. You know half the engines are inoperable on your plane in advance so there's no midflight surprise nonsense like this.

I can recommend Aerolineas Argentinas and Air Zimbabwe

 

[SWFLHurricane]

CaneinOrlando is a straight up B*tch in ref to flying....Do I when necessary??....Yes....Do I get a case of Angina every time I do??....You betcha.....

 

[ThomasM]

Yet another reason why I'm probably not flying again.

No, not scared to fly, but between the airport security bull****, and that, **** no.

Only time I might fly is if I ever make that trip to Tokyo. If I want to go across the country, I have a first class ticket on a train.

Remember that time the train fell into alligator infested waters and.... oh, never mind. Enjoy your trip!

 

[caneworld]

Bigger miracle is that it didn't set the wing tanks on fire.... those composite 777 wings would have been a goner...

 

[rekofred]

This why I only fly family dollar airlines. They have locations every where and u don't even need to leave the ground. As long as you have any vehicle with a working engine you can go anywhere in the United States. I'm pretty sure they have an app too

 

[ben]

interesting to see how many folks are spooked about flying ... and how few are spooked about getting hit on the ground by falling debris.

 

[canecrazy23]

Yet another reason why I'm probably not flying again.

No, not scared to fly, but between the airport security bull****, and that, **** no.

Only time I might fly is if I ever make that trip to Tokyo. If I want to go across the country, I have a first class ticket on a train.

 

[TheMatador]

interesting to see how many folks are spooked about flying ... and how few are spooked about getting hit on the ground by falling debris.

Worse debris I ever got from up above was from a **** bird, if you know what I mean. I was not a happy camper.

 

[Zombie-Cane]

Watch this video from inside the plane. The whole engine cowling is gone, that’s basically the inside of the jet engine you’re looking at, vibrating and shaking, it’s a miracle it didn’t fall off or completely break apart, bringing down the plane with it.

Live Updates: United plane’s engine explodes after takeoff from DIA; debris falls from sky

Large chunks of metal rained down on northwest Denver metro neighborhoods Saturday afternoon after a United Airlines plane reported engine trouble.

kdvr.com

Look at this enormous piece of the outside of the engine that tore off and landed in somebody’s front yard.


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Fortunately the plane landed safely back in Denver
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Dude, why would you post this, I gotta fly for work tomorrow!

 

[Stylie]

Real life Donnie Darko

 

[OriginalCanesCanesCanes]

Much more likely to be a line maintenance issue but honestly too early to tell. There’s so many variables here but I can assure you this wasn’t the boys down at jiffy lube who work on these things.


Lol I’m much more worried about sabotage like the AA mechanic down at Mia within the last year or two. Guy was like 20 years in too.

What was the story on that guy?

 

[Zbrod95]

I work in aviation. The engine wasn’t going to fall off. Lol scary stuff though. Can’t wait to hear the cause..

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it a security measure for those planes to run on one engine if need be?

 

[Zbrod95]

I'm a aircraft engine mechanic. We have a bet in the shop that someone BS'd a recent inspection or that they pushed out a time change to save money

That **** happens in the auto shop too. ******* shame.

 

[KANE]

Well I don’t work in aviation and would probably have a heart attack if I saw that scene unfold from seat 14C of the plane.

**** yeah!!! I would have probably **** my pants... right then

 

[ChinstrapCane]

A lot of people found religion at that moment.

 

[Houtxcane]

This happened to me 20 years ago when I flew from Houston to New Orleans. Its a 30 minute flight normally. 15 minutes into flight the pilot came on and said they lost an engine and was returning to Houston. I was more ****ed about they not landing in New Orleans since we were half way there. You can't really tell the difference from the inside of the plane otherwise.

 

[John In SLC]

I have been a commercial pilot for one of UAL's competitors for 25 plus years. The plane is designed to fly with one engine, so while it is an emergency it is trained for all the time. I'm sure it got the pilots attention but after the 1st min or so tasks were divided up ( 1 flies and talks to ATC and one secures the engine and runs the checklists) after that it is a trip around the pattern to come back and land. 777 came out in the early to mid 90's and is a great jet but sometimes things break.

 

[58straight]

I didn't realize how many air disasters we have had until I started watching the flight channel on YouTube. Glad this one didn't end in tragedy

 

[Canegetright]

Thank the good Lord nothing happened. Bro I always have nightmares of planes ever since I saw 911 live. At 13 I went on a plane wasn't scared or anything but for some reason I always have bad plane dreams lol. Don't know why

This did it for me. Tho I fly alot now a days. Flying to Hollywood, FL around this time next month. ✈

 

[MedleyCane]

Watch this video from inside the plane. The whole engine cowling is gone, that’s basically the inside of the jet engine you’re looking at, vibrating and shaking, it’s a miracle it didn’t fall off or completely break apart, bringing down the plane with it.

Live Updates: United plane’s engine explodes after takeoff from DIA; debris falls from sky

Large chunks of metal rained down on northwest Denver metro neighborhoods Saturday afternoon after a United Airlines plane reported engine trouble.

kdvr.com

Look at this enormous piece of the outside of the engine that tore off and landed in somebody’s front yard.


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Fortunately the plane landed safely back in Denver
.

So this leaves plane engine Initial Counter at 3, no?

Seriously, scary stuff.