Milos Sijacki
Senior Airman
What the hell happened? Applaud the crew for their being able to land with that kind of engine failure. Bird??
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Thats nothing. Last year a engine of one of the airlines here in SA, a B-737 200 fell off wile taking off. The pilot mannered to turn and land the plane safely. It was one for the history books since it has not been done a lot.
I have a question.............. Aren't the engine are design to stop forgein object going through it?
(for me in this case it seem that damage had been done out side)
and look where is the airline company now!!!!
done dusted rusted broken
Yep - in 1979 - that was due to the maintenance personnel removing the engine and the pylon together utilizing a forklift for the process - when reinstalling it they were cracking the pylon thus the end result.On the subject of jettisoned engines, didn't a DC-10 or two, dump one? I vaguely remember something about bolts failing due to metallurgical flaws.
Actually I think there was at least one over 737 that lost an engine like that. That's an old -200 and it has no pylon. Having flown both in a full motion sim I could tell you "The Guppy" is a pretty easy flying and rugged aircraft.
Simpler to maintain IMO but I do know it burns way more fuel than the later models.So you say FlyboyJ that the older version is better?