Air France A380 - engine cowl disintegrates over Atlantic

[hornetrider]

Yikes. Bet that was fun.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4936802/Ai...

[Lynx516]

Ugh! Front fan disk has totally separated from the rest of the engine. Would be interesting to see what hit the fuselage! Needless to say that isn't a failure mode which is supposed to happen (should only shed a could of blades maximum), as any blade is supposed to be contained within the cowling.

Took a while to work out what I was looking at.

[Dogwatch]

Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh, nasty!

At least the engine stayed put.

[hornetrider]

And here it is coming in to land. Broken indeed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/JacobBarkerCBC/status/9...

[hornetrider]

[red_slr]

Never seen a fan disc gone like that before. That is proper serious. The pylon has had a good whack too. New underpants please.

[steve-5snwi]

At least it wasn't a Rolls Royce engine.

[aeropilot]

red_slr said:

Never seen a fan disc gone like that before. That is proper serious. The pylon has had a good whack too. New underpants please.

It was still dropping bits onto the tarmac when it taxied from the runway after it diverted into Goose Bay. AF haven't disembarked PAX either, rumour is that they are being kept on board until AF get a relief flight out to Goose!

[williamp]

cheapo Air france not using Rolls Royce. If only we had a sort of european trade arrangement which would help our company get sales...

[hyphen]

steve-5snwi said:

At least it wasn't a Rolls Royce engine.

[Blaster72]

Seems everyone is still onboard now, they've decided to wait until 2 relief 777's arrive rather than deplane.

[darreni]

Blaster72 said:

Seems everyone is still onboard now, they've decided to wait until 2 relief 777's arrive rather than deplane.

Why would they keep the passengers on the plane?

[hyphen]

darreni said:

Blaster72 said:

Seems everyone is still onboard now, they've decided to wait until 2 relief 777's arrive rather than deplane.

Why would they keep the passengers on the plane?

Minimise their physical interaction with the Press?

[aeropilot]

hyphen said:

darreni said:

Blaster72 said:

Seems everyone is still onboard now, they've decided to wait until 2 relief 777's arrive rather than deplane.

Why would they keep the passengers on the plane?

Minimise their physical interaction with the Press?

Keeps them airside as well, assuming they intend to do a PAX and baggage a/c to a/c apron transfer when the 777's arrive.

Mind you this is AF were talking about.

[darreni]

AF are saying the airport is not equipped to handle A380’s & that’s why they are being kept on the plane.

What would the passengers have experienced when the engine let go?

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

darreni said:

Why would they keep the passengers on the plane?

Because at Goose there's nowhere to put them. It's a Military airfield, it has no air terminal (and precious little facilities for Service personnel!).

[gweaver]

darreni said:

What would the passengers have experienced when the engine let go?

Soiled underwear?

[CrutyRammers]

Scary. I guess losing an engine isn't a problem, but the damage the flying bits could have caused could have been catastrophic.

[darreni]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Because at Goose there's nowhere to put them. It's a Military airfield, it has no air terminal (and precious little facilities for Service personnel!).

Makes sense, the aircraft probably has better facilities?

[hyphen]

darreni said:

Makes sense, the aircraft probably has better facilities?

What about health though? DVT and and all that, they have already sat in their seats all the way from Paris, wouldn't a bit of walking around the terminal be a good idea.