The dreaded 7 engine landing

Kinja'd!!! by "facw" (facw)
Published 01/05/2017 at 14:12

Tags: Planelopnik ; That will buff out ; Check Engine Light
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Poor B-52 had some trouble:

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Though I’ll admit it seems unlikely you could have just one engine fall off on a B-52, wouldn’t you lose a whole pod? They might have had to make do with only six engines.


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Kinja'd!!! "BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
01/05/2017 at 14:16, STARS: 4

Though I’ll admit it seems unlikely you could have just one engine fall off on a B-52, wouldn’t you lose a whole pod?

Not really. The engines on the 52 are side-hung, with the pylon being a common mounting plate between them. It’s totally possible to lose one due to hardware failure and have the other stay attached just fine.

Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/05/2017 at 14:17, STARS: 3

Somebody on another forum I frequent with some background (ex AF crew) was conjecturing that the maint door for that engine might not have been secured and might have suddenly blown open KABANG while at speed. It was the only thing for a single engine loss she could think of.

Kinja'd!!! "Jcarr" (jcarr)
01/05/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 1

Saw that. Lucky it landed in an unpopulated area.

Kinja'd!!! "Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer" (cyclonefan94)
01/05/2017 at 14:21, STARS: 4

“Captain, we have an engine problem”

“What’s the issue?”

“It fell the f*ck off”

Kinja'd!!! "facw" (facw)
01/05/2017 at 14:26, STARS: 2

Given North Dakota, that was definitely the most likely outcome. Still great that no one was hurt (aside from the career implications, which I assume are negative for someone).

Kinja'd!!! "TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
01/05/2017 at 14:30, STARS: 2

“That’s definitely a problem”

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
01/05/2017 at 14:31, STARS: 3

Got tired of waiting for the re-engine program to get started.

Kinja'd!!! "BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
01/05/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 3

“It’s not supposed to do that”

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Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/05/2017 at 14:35, STARS: 0

It could have also hit a frack well and gone boom

Kinja'd!!! "E90M3" (e90m3)
01/05/2017 at 14:44, STARS: 2

That’s not how that works.

Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/05/2017 at 14:45, STARS: 0

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Kinja'd!!! "Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
01/05/2017 at 14:48, STARS: 0

“Folks, we have a little minor problem”

Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/05/2017 at 14:50, STARS: 1

Oh? Have you dropped a TF33-P-3 on a frack well and documented what happened?

Kinja'd!!! "BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
01/05/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 1

I heard that Fracking hacked the election.

Kinja'd!!! "E90M3" (e90m3)
01/05/2017 at 14:56, STARS: 0

It would just burn the trucks if the frac was still in process and end up like this:

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Kinja'd!!! "E90M3" (e90m3)
01/05/2017 at 14:56, STARS: 0

Nah, it did frac up the election though.

Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
01/05/2017 at 14:58, STARS: 2

sad neat

Kinja'd!!! "BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
01/05/2017 at 15:01, STARS: 1

I have, no shit, been assaulted by a crazy, Buick Skylark driving, drug-fueled lady while I was on a job site in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma who was CONVINCED that I was fracking and that our operation was going to “mix the oil and gas underground and blow the US into space where we’ll all freeze!”

I was at a power plant.

Kinja'd!!! "E90M3" (e90m3)
01/05/2017 at 15:04, STARS: 0

There are so many misconceptions and false information out there that it’s not even funny.

Oh look a frac site!

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I used to be a frac field engineer.

Kinja'd!!! "BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
01/05/2017 at 15:07, STARS: 1

Nice! I take what you used to pull out of the ground, burn it, and turn it into steam.