Rained aircraft parts today

[caribbean20]

Minding my own business and heard a loud boom, like a plane going supersonic, and a jet under full throttle. Didn’t think much about it until we got the emergency call from local PD to report any engine parts laying around in the yard that weren’t there an hour ago.

It was UA 328 bound for Hawaii that blew up an engine real good and returned safely to DIA. Kudos to those pro pilots.

Carry on.

 

[ultra26shadow]

http://instagr.am/p/CLiGkyGJRtQ/

 

[ultra26shadow]

Makes you think that the airlines are rusty. Being put away for so long both pilot and planes have to be a bit rusty.

 

[RichL]

Just saw the story on this on the Cleveland news a little bit ago.

 

[77hallett]

Makes you think that the airlines are rusty. Being put away for so long both pilot and planes have to be a bit rusty.

They still have to stay current with different types of approaches and landings. The simulators weren’t shut down and still operational. The aircraft themselves have their maintenance done according to hours flown, which is the only preventative maintenance done. The rest is fix it when it breaks. These things are bound to happen. Just so happened to be today.

 

[FROGMAN524]

Just like breaking bad


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[Ace in the Hole]

Minding my own business and heard a loud boom, like a plane going supersonic, and a jet under full throttle. Didn’t think much about it until we got the emergency call from local PD to report any engine parts laying around in the yard that weren’t there an hour ago.

It was UA 328 bound for Hawaii that blew up an engine real good and returned safely to DIA. Kudos to those pro pilots.

Carry on.

One of my buddies' mom was on the last hawaii bound united flight that popped an engine. I think it was a 757 around 3 years ago. She took a video...2 hours of violent shaking till they landed. She didn't fly for almost a year after that. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant on board.

 

[HNL2LHC]

Wow, plane to Hawaii and parts dropped in Broomfield. That is where our son lived.

 

[caribbean20]

Listened to the Mayday call from 328. Pilot calmly requested “do you mind if we return directly to the airport, we lost an engine,” as a husk of metal on fire was dangling from the wing. Man those guys are calm under pressure. Truly impressive!

 

[Looking Glass]

Listened to the Mayday call from 328. Pilot calmly requested “do you mind if we return directly to the airport, we lost an engine,” as a husk of metal on fire was dangling from the wing. Man those guys are calm under pressure. Truly impressive!

There's a Video from a passenger of the engine on fire, and I mean ON FIRE!!

 

[DILLIGAF]

Wow. I dont like flying at all and that would seal the deal if i was on board.

 

[cofooter]

Damn, lucky for everyone it was not body parts, good news the landed safely!!!

 

[cakemoto]

At what point do they drop the engine?

 

[86403]

Pilots should be paid more

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Minding my own business and heard a loud boom, like a plane going supersonic, and a jet under full throttle. Didn’t think much about it until we got the emergency call from local PD to report any engine parts laying around in the yard that weren’t there an hour ago.

It was UA 328 bound for Hawaii that blew up an engine real good and returned safely to DIA. Kudos to those pro pilots. View attachment 974857

Carry on.

Is this your house ? WOW

 

[CLdrinker]

At what point do they drop the engine?

You volunteering to crawl out on The wing to cut it loose?

 

[caribbean20]

Is this your house ? WOW

No, that house is about a mile away. The engine cowling scored a direct hit on a pickup truck, caved it in and bounced off. Another guy needs a roof as he now has a new skylight. Parts scattered all over the area. Streets are closed as PD and NTSB are scouring the area, but nothing in our neighborhood, just police helos doing recon.

 

[Mototrig]

I read the title and thought the worst. So glad to hear they landed. As a prior aircraft mechanic this really leaves a lump in my stomach.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

No, that house is about a mile away. The engine cowling scored a direct hit on a pickup truck and bounced off. Another guy needs a roof as he now has a new skylight. Parts scattered all over the area. Streets are closed as PD and TSA are scouring the area, but nothing in our neighborhood, just police helos doing recon.

WOW free United flights for life

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Sometimes they go "Boom!". Good on the crew for a safe return to the airport.

 

[Universal Elements]

Pilots should be paid more

They use to make a lot. After deregulation, not as much. The new guys don’t make anything like the old guys use to, Wages were starting to creep up. Covid screwed all that up. Unless you fly for UPS or FedEx, lot of laid of pilots.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

They use to make a lot. After deregulation, not as much. The new guys don’t make anything like the old guys use to, Wages were starting to creep up. Covid screwed all that up. Unless you fly for UPS or FedEx, lot of laid of pilots.

I heard they don’t get paid unless they are in the air ? True - false ?

 

[Universal Elements]

Listened to the Mayday call from 328. Pilot calmly requested “do you mind if we return directly to the airport, we lost an engine,” as a husk of metal on fire was dangling from the wing. Man those guys are calm under pressure. Truly impressive!

That’s where the training come in. Hours and hours of emergency procedures. A pilot doesn’t panic, they are too busy communicating and going through emergency checklists. I remember this one very well. I was overseas when it happened. Even though it’s in Japanese, you can hear by their voices - they were trying everything to come down in one piece.

 

[Willie B]

...Info from an American Airlines pilot...

 

[Singleton]

WOW free United flights for life

Does not work like that.
Co-worker was on the flight that landed in the Hudson River. He did not even get first class once out of the hospital. All he got was 1M miles and all medical costs paid for.

 

[rrrr]

Uncontained failures of turbofan engines are very rare. Usually a fan disk fracture or fan blades separating from the disk causes them. That's the part you can see going spinny in the front of the engine. I forget how many tons of centrifugal force are on the fan disk at takeoff thrust, but it's a lot.

A fan disk failure is what caused United 232 to crash while attempting to land at Sioux City in 1989, and fan blade fracture caused the uncontained failure on Southwest 1380 in 2018, killing a passenger.

Usually failed parts are contained because the front portion of the surrounding nacelle has a ballistic shield made from kevlar and aramid. It's the brown tarp looking material you see in this video of the engine. The parts burning are the thrust reverser grids. They're made from carbon resin compounds, and this fire probably began with burning hydraulic fluid or engine oil, as the fuel valve is always closed immediately upon an engine failure.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

get a lawyer his wife would have if it went south , it was about as south as I wanted to go . That was close real close

 

[HST4ME]

 

[WYRD]

I wonder if this pilot started a thread over on SkyDavesPlace titled "I just can't win"..

 

[Sleek-Jet]

They use to make a lot. After deregulation, not as much. The new guys don’t make anything like the old guys use to, Wages were starting to creep up. Covid screwed all that up. Unless you fly for UPS or FedEx, lot of laid of pilots.

They still do OK... Hopefully these guys get a set of steak knives or something for the effort.