United plane incident over Colorado

It's all ball bearings nowadays..

 

I've been on a plane with an engine failure. Landed in DFW with a bunch of fire trucks. That is why all planes have two engines.

 

Yeah, you and Fletch

 

I guess they talked about it and yet their curiosity pulled at them like a drug, and riveted by the scene they remained, when any one of those shards of metal from the exploded jet engine could have killed one or more of them. Including their children, who were oblivious to the danger.

 

Aren't 777s considered workhorses and some of the safest planes around?

 

What in the Donnie Darko?!?!

 

Good point but this looks a bit like some kind of uncontrolled failure, and for an engine that rotates at 15,000rpm it can fling stuff everywhere and further damage the plane. Probably a testament to how remarkably well designed and built these are that it wasn't worse

 

Kind of crazy that ring (I assume it goes around the end of the engine) didn’t cause more damage. Must be really light weight to fall that far, land on tree and only bend the branch, not break it!

 

Yeah, they do try to save weight everywhere they can. These jet engines are kind of minor miracles, from an engineering perspective.
I really want to read the nerdy bits about what happened here.

 

I met Burton Gilliam at a convention once. The guy is super nice and funny as hell. Quite the poon hound too. He stared at every rack that came his way,

 

It sounded enough like him on the mayday calls, but he reminded me he only flies 737s lol.