Classic British Flight Sim

1230 PM, Friday, June 2, 2006 at LAX.

American Airlines Boeing 767 doing a high power engine run had a #1 engine HPT failure. HPT let go and punctured left wing, #2 engine, peppered fuselage and set fire to the aircraft. The turbine disk exited the engine and sliced through the aircraft belly and lodged in the outboard side of the #2 engine

That last picture says it all.... ouch

Whats the future for this? Is it repairable? Uneconomical to repair or no choice but beer cans and saucepans for this one now?

Holy mother of god! :shock: Talk about the sh*t hitting the fan or in this case vice versa!

Great pictures though..

They will have to carry out a hardness test on the wings & fuse', if it fails that..........

Rather terminal........

Good thing it happened on the ground rather than at FL350.....

I was thinking the same thing Dyl, now we all graphically understand about the UAL DC10 at Sioux City


That would really ruin your day

Leif

What sort of engine is that? I'm assuming a GE?

Dyl Roberts wrote:Rather terminal........

Good thing it happened on the ground rather than at FL350.....

If it had happened at FL350 there would have just been damage to #1 eng and possibly some damage on the ground.

Ben Watson wrote:What sort of engine is that? I'm assuming a GE?

Yep. It's a Goosed Engine alright.

Nice one Steve.

Seriously though, that thing sure did blow out good style! I hope they have decent fully comp insurance.