Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 - via the Oz
Plane hole: ‘Someone went out’
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3:11pm
A mother of two died after being sucked out of a Southwest Airline plane’s blown-out window, when the engine exploded.
Woman partially sucked from plane window after engine ‘exploded’
An airline passenger has been killed after being partially sucked out of a blown out window, when the plane engine appeared to explode.
Southwest Airlines flight 1380, en route from New York to Dallas, with 143 passengers and five crew, was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia, where the mother of two, identified as Jennifer Riordan, was declared dead and seven other passengers were treated for minor injuries.
Ms Riordan, a Wells Fargo bank executive from New Mexico, had tweeted about her visit to New York before boarding the plane.
Passengers said they heard an explosion and a piece of the engine flew off, breaking the window of Row 17 on the left hand side of the plane and sending shattered glass into the plane.
Ms Riordan was partially sucked out of the window, but other passengers caught hold of her and pulled her back in.
In footage aired on TV, a female pilot told emergency services: “We’ve got injured passengers ... (the plane) isn’t on fire but part of it’s missing. There’s a hole and someone went out.”
“One passenger, a woman, was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane … was pulled back in by other passengers,” Todd Baur, the father of a passenger, told NBC10.
Passenger Marty Martinez said a window exploded midair and posted photo of a damaged window and emergency oxygen masks dangling down. Mr Martinez said a woman suffered a heart attack, but could not say if it was the woman who was sucked out of the window.
“Someone on the plane had a heart attack and it looks like an engine blew out then a window was blown open,” he said on Facebook. “We are still on the plane and they are trying to revive a woman on the plane.”
Passenger Amanda Bourman told the Seattle Times: “I just remember holding my husband’s hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed.” She said she saw medical workers using a defibrillator to help one of the passengers.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the engine will be shipped for a detailed examination.
John Goglia, a former NTSB member, told the Seattle Times: “There’s a ring around the engine that’s meant to contain the engine pieces when this happens. In this case it didn’t. That’s going to be a big focal point for the NTSB — why didn’t (the ring) do its job?”
The Federal Aviation Administration said the flight from New York to Dallas made an emergency landing after the crew reported damage to one of the engines, as well as the fuselage and at least one window.
Philadelphia’s fire chief said one person was taken to the hospital in critical condition and seven were treated for minor injuries.
& from Byron Bailey:
‘This is not supposed to happen’
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2:49pmByron Bailey
The world’s most popular airliner has suffered an unfortunate accident, but statistically flying is still safer than driving a car.
‘Freakish’ Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 accident wasn’t meant to happen
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, the world’s most popular airliner, has just suffered a freakish accident. The left engine disintegrated in flight causing a rupture of the fuselage and death and destruction.
This is not supposed to happen. The visible large front fan of the engine, which produces most of the engine thrust, is in the event of a ‘rotor burst’ supposed to be contained within a reinforced shroud. This danger area is denoted usually by a red band around the engine cowling.
The titanium fan is the largest moving part of the engine and at the high rotational revolutions per minute the fan blades are subject to very large rotational inertia (centrifugal force). It has been known for the occasional fan blade separation in past occurrences in various aircraft engines but this particular failure was very severe and large fragments penetrated the fuselage. However, it may not have been a fan failure in the initial part of the disintegration and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be able to quickly determine the cause.
The aircraft was cruising at 38,000 feet which my son, who flies a B737, tells me is the optimum cruising altitude for the B737 but they sometimes go to 41,000 cruise when the passenger load is light. Sea level pressure is about 15 lbs per square inch (psi).
In cruise at 38,000 feet the outside air pressure is only about one quarter the sea level value and with a cabin altitude of approximately 5,500 feet results in a pressure differential between inside and outside, of about 8.8 psi. The force therefore exerted on a 200 square inch window is nearly 1800 lbs. If the fuselage is ruptured or a window blows out, a massive outflow of cabin air would result and violently suck out any passenger or non secured cabin item.
One reason fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks is that their fighter aircraft are not fully pressurised so as to avoid an explosive rupture if the cockpit is penetrated by a bullet or missile shrapnel. The poor unfortunate lady that was apparently violently sucked out through a window of the B737 probably would have blacked out rather quickly as the time of useful consciousness at 38,000 feet is only about 15 seconds.
The passenger emergency oxygen masks would have immediately automatically deployed when the cabin altitude raced up through a value of 13,500 feet. The British airline industry was ruined by a series of crashes of their de Havilland Comets which was the worlds first airliner. This was due to corners of the fuselage square windows suffering fatigue cracking due to the cycles of differential pressure resulting in fuselage disintegration in cruise. Aviation technology and engineering design has evolved massively since then.
Southwest Airlines, which is my airline of choice when I fly domestically in the USA, is one of the world’s largest operators of B737 and they have a very high utilisation rate. The question therefore may be how many hours of operation this particular General Electric CFM56 engine had remaining before its next major overhaul.
I have flown General Electric CFM engines in my Airbus days and they were very reliable and rugged so this engine blow-up and the resulting massive penetration of the fuselage by engine debris is very rare.
Engines do fail but sometimes not through a design fault but a minor engineering defect which can start a chain of events leading to a catastrophic engine failure. This was the case of the Qantas A380 Rolls Royce engine blow-up out of Singapore and which was magnificently handled by the very experienced and professional Qantas crew. Qantas remains the world’s safest airline.
Captain Tammie Jo Shults aged 56, a former USAF fighter pilot, has been lauded for her incredible bravery. However bravery has nothing to do with it. As a very experienced professional aviator she would have performed the emergency response checklist items for engine failure as it happened just as she would have done hundreds of times in simulator training every six months since joining Southwest Airlines in 1993.
Professionalism is reflected in her calmness under pressure which is an attribute of experience just like Captain ‘Sully’ Shultzberger — hero of the Hudson and also a former fighter pilot — who remained incredibly calm during his double engine failure and ditching.
Statistically, flying is still safer than driving a car. This was an very rare and unfortunate accident.
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A rare and freakish accident
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12:00amByron Bailey
Statistically, flying is still safer than driving a car.
Death and destruction from a rare and freakish accident
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, the world’s most popular airliner, has just suffered a freakish accident. The left engine disintegrated in flight, causing a rupture of the fuselage and death and destruction.
This is not supposed to happen. The visible large front fan of the engine, which produces most of the engine thrust, is supposed to be contained within a reinforced shroud in the event of a “rotor burst”. This danger area is denoted usually by a red band around the engine cowling.
The titanium fan is the largest moving part of the engine and at the high rotational revolutions per minute the fan blades are subject to very large rotational inertia (centrifugal force). It has been known for the occasional fan blade separation in past occurrences in various engines but this particular failure was very severe and large fragments penetrated the fuselage. However, it may not have been a fan failure in the initial part of the disintegration and the US National Transportation Safety Board will be able to quickly determine the cause.
The aircraft was cruising at 38,000. Sea level pressure is about 15 lbs a square inch. In cruise at 38,000 feet, the outside air pressure is only about one-quarter the sea level value and with a cabin altitude of approximately 5500 feet results in a pressure differential between inside and outside, of about 8.8 psi. The force therefore exerted on a 200 square inch window is nearly 1800 lbs.
If the fuselage is ruptured or a window blows out, a massive outflow of cabin air would result and violently suck out any passenger or non-secured cabin item.
The poor lady who died yesterday would have blacked out rather quickly as the time of useful consciousness at 38,000 feet is about 15 seconds.
The British airline industry was ruined by a series of crashes of their de Havilland Comets, which was the world’s first airliner. This was due to corners of the fuselage square windows suffering fatigue cracking due to the cycles of differential pressure resulting in fuselage disintegration in cruise. Aviation technology and engineering design has evolved massively since then.
Statistically, flying is still safer than driving a car.
This was a very rare and unfortunate accident.
And from the NTSB, via the Oz:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-18/nt...th/9670990
NTSB provides update on Pennsylvania plane death
Posted Wed at 12:14pmWed 18 Apr 2018, 12:14pm
The Chairman of the US National Transport Safety Board provides an update on an incident in which a plane's engine blew at 30,000 feet and a passenger on board died.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 3min 39sec
Topics: air-and-space, air-transport, united-states
Top Stories
[url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/queensland-council-recycling-dump-to-start-nationwide-reaction/9673370][/url]
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Plane hole: ‘Someone went out’
3:11pmA mother of two died after being sucked out of a Southwest Airline plane’s blown-out window, when the engine exploded.
Woman partially sucked from plane window after engine ‘exploded’
An airline passenger has been killed after being partially sucked out of a blown out window, when the plane engine appeared to explode.
Southwest Airlines flight 1380, en route from New York to Dallas, with 143 passengers and five crew, was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia, where the mother of two, identified as Jennifer Riordan, was declared dead and seven other passengers were treated for minor injuries.
Ms Riordan, a Wells Fargo bank executive from New Mexico, had tweeted about her visit to New York before boarding the plane.
Passengers said they heard an explosion and a piece of the engine flew off, breaking the window of Row 17 on the left hand side of the plane and sending shattered glass into the plane.
Ms Riordan was partially sucked out of the window, but other passengers caught hold of her and pulled her back in.
In footage aired on TV, a female pilot told emergency services: “We’ve got injured passengers ... (the plane) isn’t on fire but part of it’s missing. There’s a hole and someone went out.”
“One passenger, a woman, was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane … was pulled back in by other passengers,” Todd Baur, the father of a passenger, told NBC10.
Passenger Marty Martinez said a window exploded midair and posted photo of a damaged window and emergency oxygen masks dangling down. Mr Martinez said a woman suffered a heart attack, but could not say if it was the woman who was sucked out of the window.
“Someone on the plane had a heart attack and it looks like an engine blew out then a window was blown open,” he said on Facebook. “We are still on the plane and they are trying to revive a woman on the plane.”
Passenger Amanda Bourman told the Seattle Times: “I just remember holding my husband’s hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed.” She said she saw medical workers using a defibrillator to help one of the passengers.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the engine will be shipped for a detailed examination.
John Goglia, a former NTSB member, told the Seattle Times: “There’s a ring around the engine that’s meant to contain the engine pieces when this happens. In this case it didn’t. That’s going to be a big focal point for the NTSB — why didn’t (the ring) do its job?”
The Federal Aviation Administration said the flight from New York to Dallas made an emergency landing after the crew reported damage to one of the engines, as well as the fuselage and at least one window.
Philadelphia’s fire chief said one person was taken to the hospital in critical condition and seven were treated for minor injuries.
& from Byron Bailey:
‘This is not supposed to happen’
2:49pmByron BaileyThe world’s most popular airliner has suffered an unfortunate accident, but statistically flying is still safer than driving a car.
‘Freakish’ Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 accident wasn’t meant to happen
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, the world’s most popular airliner, has just suffered a freakish accident. The left engine disintegrated in flight causing a rupture of the fuselage and death and destruction.
This is not supposed to happen. The visible large front fan of the engine, which produces most of the engine thrust, is in the event of a ‘rotor burst’ supposed to be contained within a reinforced shroud. This danger area is denoted usually by a red band around the engine cowling.
The titanium fan is the largest moving part of the engine and at the high rotational revolutions per minute the fan blades are subject to very large rotational inertia (centrifugal force). It has been known for the occasional fan blade separation in past occurrences in various aircraft engines but this particular failure was very severe and large fragments penetrated the fuselage. However, it may not have been a fan failure in the initial part of the disintegration and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be able to quickly determine the cause.
The aircraft was cruising at 38,000 feet which my son, who flies a B737, tells me is the optimum cruising altitude for the B737 but they sometimes go to 41,000 cruise when the passenger load is light. Sea level pressure is about 15 lbs per square inch (psi).
In cruise at 38,000 feet the outside air pressure is only about one quarter the sea level value and with a cabin altitude of approximately 5,500 feet results in a pressure differential between inside and outside, of about 8.8 psi. The force therefore exerted on a 200 square inch window is nearly 1800 lbs. If the fuselage is ruptured or a window blows out, a massive outflow of cabin air would result and violently suck out any passenger or non secured cabin item.
One reason fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks is that their fighter aircraft are not fully pressurised so as to avoid an explosive rupture if the cockpit is penetrated by a bullet or missile shrapnel. The poor unfortunate lady that was apparently violently sucked out through a window of the B737 probably would have blacked out rather quickly as the time of useful consciousness at 38,000 feet is only about 15 seconds.
The passenger emergency oxygen masks would have immediately automatically deployed when the cabin altitude raced up through a value of 13,500 feet. The British airline industry was ruined by a series of crashes of their de Havilland Comets which was the worlds first airliner. This was due to corners of the fuselage square windows suffering fatigue cracking due to the cycles of differential pressure resulting in fuselage disintegration in cruise. Aviation technology and engineering design has evolved massively since then.
Southwest Airlines, which is my airline of choice when I fly domestically in the USA, is one of the world’s largest operators of B737 and they have a very high utilisation rate. The question therefore may be how many hours of operation this particular General Electric CFM56 engine had remaining before its next major overhaul.
I have flown General Electric CFM engines in my Airbus days and they were very reliable and rugged so this engine blow-up and the resulting massive penetration of the fuselage by engine debris is very rare.
Engines do fail but sometimes not through a design fault but a minor engineering defect which can start a chain of events leading to a catastrophic engine failure. This was the case of the Qantas A380 Rolls Royce engine blow-up out of Singapore and which was magnificently handled by the very experienced and professional Qantas crew. Qantas remains the world’s safest airline.
Captain Tammie Jo Shults aged 56, a former USAF fighter pilot, has been lauded for her incredible bravery. However bravery has nothing to do with it. As a very experienced professional aviator she would have performed the emergency response checklist items for engine failure as it happened just as she would have done hundreds of times in simulator training every six months since joining Southwest Airlines in 1993.
Professionalism is reflected in her calmness under pressure which is an attribute of experience just like Captain ‘Sully’ Shultzberger — hero of the Hudson and also a former fighter pilot — who remained incredibly calm during his double engine failure and ditching.
Statistically, flying is still safer than driving a car. This was an very rare and unfortunate accident.
&..
A rare and freakish accident
12:00amByron BaileyStatistically, flying is still safer than driving a car.
Death and destruction from a rare and freakish accident
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, the world’s most popular airliner, has just suffered a freakish accident. The left engine disintegrated in flight, causing a rupture of the fuselage and death and destruction.
This is not supposed to happen. The visible large front fan of the engine, which produces most of the engine thrust, is supposed to be contained within a reinforced shroud in the event of a “rotor burst”. This danger area is denoted usually by a red band around the engine cowling.
The titanium fan is the largest moving part of the engine and at the high rotational revolutions per minute the fan blades are subject to very large rotational inertia (centrifugal force). It has been known for the occasional fan blade separation in past occurrences in various engines but this particular failure was very severe and large fragments penetrated the fuselage. However, it may not have been a fan failure in the initial part of the disintegration and the US National Transportation Safety Board will be able to quickly determine the cause.
The aircraft was cruising at 38,000. Sea level pressure is about 15 lbs a square inch. In cruise at 38,000 feet, the outside air pressure is only about one-quarter the sea level value and with a cabin altitude of approximately 5500 feet results in a pressure differential between inside and outside, of about 8.8 psi. The force therefore exerted on a 200 square inch window is nearly 1800 lbs.
If the fuselage is ruptured or a window blows out, a massive outflow of cabin air would result and violently suck out any passenger or non-secured cabin item.
The poor lady who died yesterday would have blacked out rather quickly as the time of useful consciousness at 38,000 feet is about 15 seconds.
The British airline industry was ruined by a series of crashes of their de Havilland Comets, which was the world’s first airliner. This was due to corners of the fuselage square windows suffering fatigue cracking due to the cycles of differential pressure resulting in fuselage disintegration in cruise. Aviation technology and engineering design has evolved massively since then.
Statistically, flying is still safer than driving a car.
This was a very rare and unfortunate accident.
And from the NTSB, via the Oz:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-18/nt...th/9670990
NTSB provides update on Pennsylvania plane death
Posted Wed at 12:14pmWed 18 Apr 2018, 12:14pm
The Chairman of the US National Transport Safety Board provides an update on an incident in which a plane's engine blew at 30,000 feet and a passenger on board died.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 3min 39sec
Topics: air-and-space, air-transport, united-states
Top Stories
[url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/queensland-council-recycling-dump-to-start-nationwide-reaction/9673370][/url]
Or the full version, via youtube:
MTF...P2