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2018-04-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

FAA orders fan blade inspections after jet engine explosion

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-19 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Faulty inspections as had been suspected.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-19 01:16|| 2018-04-19 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Just curious, who does Southworsts maintianence

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-04-19 06:28|| 2018-04-19 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I am suprised the inbred rent a dork police from the TSA did not take the woman into custody for breaking the window and terroristic threats! She had to have said God or Jesus help or save me!

Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-04-19 08:21|| 2018-04-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Southwest has their own maintenance crews. The 737 is the only make/model flown by them to realize economies of said maintenance (training, parts inventories, bookkeeping, etc.).

Fan blades can "go" at any time. Sometimes it can be caught (Dye Penetrant Inspection), but not always (the defect must be evident on the surface of the tested/examined part).

In this case, it appears the blade departed the engine, went through the a/c window and hit the unfortunate passenger. At that point, she was seriously injured. The rapid and violent a/c decompression adjacent to the injured passenger "sucked" her upper torso partially through a shard-riddled window. Note the aircraft was probably at cruise, depending upon model, between 430 and 450 knots. Thence the passengers pulled her back through the shard-riddled window and began CPR.

I suspect the ultimate cause of death was, owing to trauma and stress, a heart attack, this exacerbated by injury caused by the flying part, and neck trauma caused by the immediate violence of a 0-to-430-ish knot stress to the neck/spinal cord. Throw in blood loss and shock, and she had no chance.

Some years back, something similar happened when an a/c structure was compromised and an occupied passenger seat departed the aircraft and then went through the engine.

Some days are not your day.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-04-19 09:04|| 2018-04-19 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Pilot's in trouble now. By landing the plane safely there is no difficulty determining the cause of the failure - and the liability of Southwest for being late on inspections; if the plane had crashed in a fireball a broken fan blade could be claimed to be incidental damage, and the crash pilot error.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-04-19 09:53|| 2018-04-19 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Nice read VR.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-19 10:29|| 2018-04-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I wrote the insurance on this one

Posted by Beavis 2018-04-19 13:17|| 2018-04-19 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Your snark definition for today:

ETOPS: Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim.

Maybe time to go back to 4 engine birds.....
(Why is the soundtrack from "Airplane" of the aircraft in flight running through my head?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-04-19 14:34|| 2018-04-19 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh Lord have mercy
THAT was FUNNY

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-19 20:11|| 2018-04-19 20:11|| Front Page Top

#10 In this case it will be done by UT (ultrasonic testing) which depending on the frequency the depth will be greater.

Posted by Tzsenator 2018-04-19 22:45|| 2018-04-19 22:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I originally thought the FAA for some reason wanted to inspect all of the fans in the District ahead of the IG releasing their report.

Notice how even Stormy has disappeared. AND now we have a judge questioning Mueller's jurisdiction to press changes on Manafort???

Me thinks it is going to turn very quickly, much like the Ardennes was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-19 23:37|| 2018-04-19 23:37|| Front Page Top

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