"Hello Sydney, Engine Number One is Fooked"

"user314" (user314) 06/13/2017 at 16:19 • Filed to: Planelopnik, Code Brown, fookin' 'ell, Australia, China, airlines

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I should say so.

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Shanghai-bound MU736 is the second Trent 700 powered A330 to have the engine cowling fracture in flight, and an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was issued in January of this year.

For Sweden > user314 06/13/2017 at 16:21

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Classic British Engineering

MonkeePuzzle > For Sweden 06/13/2017 at 16:23

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letting the smoke out

Aremmes > For Sweden 06/13/2017 at 16:24

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Speed holes.

Azrek > user314 06/13/2017 at 16:26

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Blew a head gasket?

user314 > Azrek 06/13/2017 at 16:38

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

ttyymmnn > For Sweden 06/13/2017 at 16:44

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Lightness added.

ttyymmnn > user314 06/13/2017 at 16:45

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“How far can we fly on one engine?”

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

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/13/2017 at 16:48

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

Honeybunchesofgoats > user314 06/13/2017 at 16:51

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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.

user314 > Honeybunchesofgoats 06/13/2017 at 16:55

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

Tristan > user314 06/13/2017 at 16:57

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

user314 > ttyymmnn 06/13/2017 at 16:58

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

Honeybunchesofgoats > user314 06/13/2017 at 17:01

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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.

just-a-scratch > user314 06/13/2017 at 19:34

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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/

wafflesnfalafel > just-a-scratch 06/13/2017 at 20:11

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

just-a-scratch > wafflesnfalafel 06/13/2017 at 20:31

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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.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Tristan 06/13/2017 at 21:00

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