NEWS SWA 737 Engine Failure - Diverts to PNS

[ChuckMK23]

So this just happened - SWA 3472 N766SW

Details here : http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2016/08/southwest-airlines-boeing-737-incident_27.html


- all safe at KPNS BZ to crew!

 

[Brett327]

Yikes!

 

[ea6bflyr]

That will buff right out.

 

[ChuckMK23]

 

[ea6bflyr]

The article details how the PAX were scared. Boom, smoke, emergency decent, o2 masks. As the unwashed masses, I could see how that is scary, but as a flier, it seems SOP.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Unfortunately one of my company's engines.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Another pic from pax, (via twitterverse)

 

[ea6bflyr]

Do the airlines do Engineering Investigations like the Navy? Or is that an NTSB function? I'm certain they will be searching for the missing pieces.

 

[picklesuit]

So this just happened - SWA 3472 N766SW

Details here : http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2016/08/southwest-airlines-boeing-737-incident_27.html


- all safe at KPNS BZ to crew!

From the blur of the picture, it looks like the turbine blades are still free spinning...interesting...

 

[jollygreen07]

From the blur of the picture, it looks like the turbine blades are still free spinning...interesting...

From that Flightaware screenshot it looks like there was weather in the area. I wonder if there was some kind of issue with the bleed air system that caused the nacelle to rupture and separate when the nacelle anti-ice was turned on.

 

[Surf]

http://www.liveatc.net/listen.php
KPNS-KNPA-Aug-27-2016-1400Z.mp3

If you skip to about the 28 minute mark you hear the call, then the crew going through checklist items.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Looks like only a 18 minute file - when does it happen?

 

[nittany03]

From the blur of the picture, it looks like the turbine blades are still free spinning...interesting...

That looks like the front of the engine fan. If those were turbine blades, I'd think you'd see a ragged front of the spool where it would otherwise have run forward to the compressor stages. Also a shitton more oil spewing everywhere, from that system being compromised. Fuel too. In fact, I can't think how you could crack the body of a split-spool engine in half to show the turbine blades from the front without the thing catching fire, because the combustor'd have to go too.

Almost looks like the front of the nacelle came off up to the first stage blades. I'm sure it FODed the living shit out of what's behind, but still.

 

[Brett327]

One of the pics showed where it hit the H stab.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Looks like debris went into the fuselage, through the skin