OT from downstairs

re: #311 austin_blue

In our house, we call that being incatlapitated.

By the way, here is something you don’t want to see out of the airplane window on your flight to the Magic Kingdom:

wsj.com

“Major Engine Malfunction”

Yes, yes that was an engine malfunction, if a catastrophic, uncontained turbine/fan failure can be referred to as a “malfunction”.

The pilots’ seat cushions were removed surgically at a Pensacola hospital.

I don’t think the fan failed though - it’s still visible in the photos. It looks to me like the whole cowling forward of the fan twisted away. CBS’s page has a picture taken from the gate that shows what looks to me like a dent near the wing root too.

It’s a completely bonkers failure. What makes the whole intake tunnel peel off of an engine pod like that? The inner structure (honeycomb sandwich, looks like?) is split and peeled back all the way around. It’s like The Hulk grabbed the front of the engine and twisted it off.

I’m glad they’re on the ground safe and I’m really interested to find out just what the F happened exactly. The investigators have an interesting job ahead of them.

And, somewhere under the flight path is somebody with a big aluminum donut in their yard…