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Images of engine + pilon detaching UPS MD-11 in Louisville

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Images of engine + pilon detaching UPS MD-11 in Louisville

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Source: NTSB

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  • infinitevalence@discuss.online
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    https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

    So the Engine fell off? Is it supposed to do that?

    • nailingjello@piefed.zip
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      That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

      • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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        A wave? At sea?
        Well. Chance in a million.

        • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world
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          It was towed outside of the environment.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
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        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.

        • Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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          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.

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            Was this MD-11 safe?

            • Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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              Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.

          • Lurking Hobbyist🕸️@lemmy.world
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            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.

            • Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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              Well, some of them are built so that the engine doesn’t fall off at all.

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      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.

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    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.comOP
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      Left is 1

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    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.comOP
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      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

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    The engine fell off.

  • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    Lol you’re supposed to take the curser off the engine before you taxi. Amateurs.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Haha I updated my screenshot in the post, so heres the original w the cursor click of doom

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        “We told you not to click there!!”

        I’m simple, because this is genuinely hilarious.

      • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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        See, even you knew better than that planes crew!

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    That happened to me in Kerbel Space Program once

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Only once?

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        At least once every time I opened the game

    • FuCensorship@lemmy.today
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      This image is Kerbal Space Program 2.

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        RTX on, of course.

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      You can never have enough struts

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        Fuel lines. Fight me.

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      This happened to me in Kerbal Space Program like 600 times… I should not be allowed near aircrafts.

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    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
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      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.

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    Hey, that engine seems to be doing just fine. If the rest of the plane can’t keep up, it’s on them.

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    I need to point out that this is not typical.

    • Lydia_K@lemmy.world
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      Well the engine doesn’t normally fall off.

  • IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social
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    I’m assuming there isn’t any public video from that angle?

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Not that ive seen yet

  • simulacra_procession@lemmy.today
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    Holy shit the UPS execs have got to be in the war room like it’s ‘Succession’ right about now

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    Source?

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA26MA024.aspx

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      It’s from the NTSB’s Preliminary Report

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    That engine sure did a boeing.

  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Safe to fly!

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    It’s gone poorly.

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