Well, there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that MD-11s aren’t safe.
True, 707 had a bunch of engine loses (Braniff test flight and Kabo 671 from top of my head) and 747 had a couple since they share pylon designs (El Al 1862 comes to mind). One was due to unseen cracks in the pylons and other in fuse pins, so maybe history decided to rhyme here.
I usually laugh at these. This one doesn't work well. They didn't have an idea they were trouble until the plane started turning and sinking, which was only a few seconds after this.
MD-11, btw. There is no DC-11. The DC-10 was an earlier jet design, and some were eventually converted to the more modern cockpit of the MD-11 that enabled just two pilots to fly it, changing their designation to MD-10.
Somehow I instinctively knew it was going to be an MD aircraft when my colleague asked me if I'd seen the video. They designed some shitty aircraft did MD.
I believe the engine is designed to shear off instead of destroying the wing, so the not destroying the wing part seems to have worked. But I don’t think it’s supposed to shear off at that point.
Did maintenance fail to mount the engine correctly because they were in a rush?
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infinitevalence@discuss.online · 44 pts · 290d
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
So the Engine fell off? Is it supposed to do that?
nailingjello@piefed.zip · 38 pts · 290d
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 22 pts · 290d
A wave? At sea?
Well. Chance in a million.
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 290d
It was towed outside of the environment.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 290d
It isn't completely atypical...
Look at American Airlines 191, a DC-10 also had its engine torn off during take off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
It may even run in the family.
SenatorCollins@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 290d
Well, there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that MD-11s aren’t safe.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 290d
Was this MD-11 safe?
SenatorCollins@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 290d
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
WeavingSpider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 290d
True, 707 had a bunch of engine loses (Braniff test flight and Kabo 671 from top of my head) and 747 had a couple since they share pylon designs (El Al 1862 comes to mind). One was due to unseen cracks in the pylons and other in fuse pins, so maybe history decided to rhyme here.
SenatorCollins@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 290d
Well, some of them are built so that the engine doesn’t fall off at all.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 290d
I usually laugh at these. This one doesn't work well. They didn't have an idea they were trouble until the plane started turning and sinking, which was only a few seconds after this.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 290d
Holy shit.
I had already seen/heard that engine 3 failed, I did not realize it had assumed an independent flight path.
Jesus Christ, what an unbelievably unwinnable scenario for the pilots.
RIP.
(Err, is the left wing engine 1, or 3?)
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 290d
Left is 1
negativenull@piefed.world · 29 pts · 290d
That happened to me in Kerbel Space Program once
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 290d
Only once?
negativenull@piefed.world · 10 pts · 290d
At least once every time I opened the game
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 290d
You can never have enough struts
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 6 pts · 290d
Fuel lines. Fight me.
FuCensorship@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 290d
This image is Kerbal Space Program 2.
Zink@programming.dev · 3 pts · 290d
RTX on, of course.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 289d
This happened to me in Kerbal Space Program like 600 times... I should not be allowed near aircrafts.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 28 pts · 290d
Lol you're supposed to take the curser off the engine before you taxi. Amateurs.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 290d
Haha I updated my screenshot in the post, so heres the original w the cursor click of doom
calliope@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 289d
“We told you not to click there!!”
I’m simple, because this is genuinely hilarious.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 2 pts · 289d
See, even you knew better than that planes crew!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 20 pts · 290d
MD-11, btw. There is no DC-11. The DC-10 was an earlier jet design, and some were eventually converted to the more modern cockpit of the MD-11 that enabled just two pilots to fly it, changing their designation to MD-10.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 289d
Somehow I instinctively knew it was going to be an MD aircraft when my colleague asked me if I'd seen the video. They designed some shitty aircraft did MD.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 290d
I believe the engine is designed to shear off instead of destroying the wing, so the not destroying the wing part seems to have worked. But I don’t think it’s supposed to shear off at that point.
Did maintenance fail to mount the engine correctly because they were in a rush?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 290d
John Browne has a good channel that goes into it with engineering drawings of the pilon. Yea seems designed to separate from the wing to not damage it
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 15 pts · 290d
I need to point out that this is not typical.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 290d
Well the engine doesn't normally fall off.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 290d
The engine fell off.
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 290d
Holy shit the UPS execs have got to be in the war room like it's 'Succession' right about now
Beacon@fedia.io · 8 pts · 290d
Source?
jqubed@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 290d
It’s from the NTSB’s Preliminary Report
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 290d
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA26MA024.aspx
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 289d
Hey, that engine seems to be doing just fine. If the rest of the plane can't keep up, it's on them.
IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social · 2 pts · 289d
I'm assuming there isn't any public video from that angle?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 289d
Not that ive seen yet
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 289d
Safe to fly!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 290d
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 289d
What's the problem? That'll just buff right out. Maybe some bondo and spray paint. Easy peasy.