"Hello Sydney, Engine Number One is Fooked"

Kinja'd!!! by "user314" (user314)
Published 06/13/2017 at 16:19

Tags: Planelopnik ; Code Brown ; fookin' 'ell ; Australia ; China ; airlines
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Shanghai-bound MU736 is the second Trent 700 powered A330 to have the engine cowling fracture in flight, and an Air Worthiness Directive was issued in January of this year.

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Kinja'd!!! "For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
06/13/2017 at 16:21, STARS: 2

Classic British Engineering

Kinja'd!!! "MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
06/13/2017 at 16:23, STARS: 2

letting the smoke out

Kinja'd!!! "Aremmes" (aremmes)
06/13/2017 at 16:24, STARS: 1

Speed holes.

Kinja'd!!! "Azrek" (azrek)
06/13/2017 at 16:26, STARS: 0

Blew a head gasket?

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
06/13/2017 at 16:38, STARS: 1

I’d have guessed RUD of the compressor section, but the AWD mentions vibrations and harmonics damage.

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/13/2017 at 16:44, STARS: 2

Lightness added.

Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
06/13/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 4

“How far can we fly on one engine?”

“All the way to the scene of the crash.”

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
06/13/2017 at 16:48, STARS: 3

“I bet we beat the paramedics there by a half-hour! We’re haulin’ ass!”

Kinja'd!!! "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/13/2017 at 16:51, STARS: 2

I know you’re just repeating the headline, so this isn’t directed at you but at the Kiwi news site: listening to that audio, you have to be a wee bit racist to hear “fooked.” Granted, fault isn’t entirely clear, but there is absolutely no k there.

Also, can Airbus not do this? I’ve always made an effort to avoid flying Boeing and I don’t like things that challenge my world view.

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
06/13/2017 at 16:55, STARS: 1

TBH, I haven’t heard the recording yet (work firewall...), I’d just assumed it was the A/NZ accent turning ‘fucked’ into ‘fooked’.

Kinja'd!!! "Tristan" (casselts)
06/13/2017 at 16:57, STARS: 2

First stage blades? We don’t need no first stage blades!

Kinja'd!!! "user314" (user314)
06/13/2017 at 16:58, STARS: 1

“Hit something hard! I don’t want to limp away from this sonuva...”

Kinja'd!!! "Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/13/2017 at 17:01, STARS: 1

That was my first thought too, but the second video on the page has the audio and it’s pretty clearly a Chinese pilot saying “engine number one fault,” although fault sounds more like “fall.” It’s so clearly not fook, though.

Kinja'd!!! "just-a-scratch" (just-a-scratch)
06/13/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 0

One of the experts is postulating that the engine threw a fan blade. That’s damn scary. If it can break the cowl, it can surely puncture the fuselage.

https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/rolls-royce-under-fire-after-hole-plane-engine/3188840/

Kinja'd!!! "wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
06/13/2017 at 20:11, STARS: 0

yep - looks like the engine cowl did what it was supposed to do - contain the thrown blade at all costs.

Kinja'd!!! "just-a-scratch" (just-a-scratch)
06/13/2017 at 20:31, STARS: 0

If there is a gaping hole in the cowl, does that not indicate the cowl failed to do it job? Thankfully I see no mention of fuselage puncture by stray fan blades.

Kinja'd!!! "BaconSandwich is tasty." (baconsandwich)
06/13/2017 at 21:00, STARS: 1

Poor thing was just trying to do it’s best impersonation of a low-bypass turbojet.