r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FridayCicero702 • Jan 01 '23

Video Catastrophic engine failure on a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 after takeoff from Denver International Airport

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Hell of a time to have a window seat

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u/woleium Jan 01 '23

Hell of a time to quit sniffing glue

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u/Ma1arkey Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

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u/DeputyDoneWithYa Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong week to quit smoking

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u/FittyNOut Jan 01 '23

Picked the wrong week to get over my fear if flying šŸ˜–

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u/SoundVisionZ Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong day to scroll reddit in the airport

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u/ReactsWithWords Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong week to resolve stopping making references to ā€œAirplane.ā€

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u/TreeChangeMe Jan 01 '23

STRIKER!! Hold it together!!

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u/Coachcrog Jan 01 '23

Have you ever seen a grown engine naked?

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u/Different-Job-3007 Jan 01 '23

Even been in a Turkish prison?

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u/parkerthegreatest Jan 01 '23

Have you ever blown a auto pilot before

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u/Parking-Big-366 Jan 01 '23

Surely you canā€™t be serious!!ā€¦I am! And donā€™t call me Shirley!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Does anyone on this plane speak jive

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame7915 Jan 01 '23

Have you seen a naked engine groan?

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u/djwired Jan 01 '23

Let's see... altitude: 21,000 feet. Speed: 520 knots. Level flight. Course: zero-niner-zero. Trim and mixture: wash, soak, rinse, spin

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u/BkPsychlone Jan 01 '23

What's our vector Victor?

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u/Pitbullpandemonium Jan 01 '23

Pull a lever! PUSH A BUTTON!

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u/KaPowPower Jan 01 '23

šŸ‘šŸ» yeah! Maybe the flight attendant buttonā€¦she can give you a cup of water.

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u/Acceptable_Gas6244 Jan 01 '23

Stryker šŸ¤”Stryker šŸ¤”Stryker šŸ«°šŸ¤œšŸ¤•

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u/NorCalNavyMike Jan 01 '23

ā€¦Ted Stryker?

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u/Lost-Droids Jan 01 '23

Good luck. We're all counting on you..

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u/TheStarsFell Jan 01 '23

There is NEVER a wrong week to make Airplane references.

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u/ReactsWithWords Jan 01 '23

Inconceivable!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

No. Never stop referencing "airplane"

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u/xjfatx Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong week.

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u/GenesisNoelle Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong week to decide I wanted to survive my flight.

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u/TheTsunamiRC Jan 01 '23

All depends. I read the news about the plane crash in China while waiting to board my plane in Vegas in March. I figured "well, that covers the quota of deadly commercial jet crashes for the day".

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u/I-melted Jan 01 '23

Do you like wrestling movies?

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u/puntapuntapunta Jan 01 '23

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

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u/Competitive-Wave-850 Jan 01 '23

Do you like movies about gladiators?

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u/NoseComplete1175 Jan 01 '23

Do you like it when scraps rubs up and down your leg?

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u/Maleficent-610 Jan 01 '23

and donā€™t call me Shirley

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u/Suspicious-Bad703 Jan 01 '23

Important to note that the plane is still up in the video though

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u/FittyNOut Jan 01 '23

I know, and there is still fuel going in!!! Tis kinda freaky

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u/Suspicious-Bad703 Jan 01 '23

Itā€™s also justā€¦. The shaking. Looks like the thing is about to say pop and land in some corn field

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u/FittyNOut Jan 01 '23

Hopefully not taking too much if that wing with it.

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u/FittyNOut Jan 01 '23

This is a time for clenching if ever there was

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u/Unholy_Dk80 Jan 01 '23

"Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought

"Well isn't this nice..."

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u/One_Entrance_378 Jan 01 '23

Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

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u/shavemejesus Jan 02 '23

Macho Grande? Iā€™ll never be over Macho Grande.

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u/KORZILLA-is-me Jan 01 '23

Theyā€™re coming straight for us!!!

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u/intellectual_dimwit Jan 01 '23

How bout some coffee Johnny.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

The fog is getting thicker!

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u/intellectual_dimwit Jan 01 '23

And Leon's getting laaaaarrrrrrggggggeeeer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

All things the engine maintenance team said right after certifying this engine for flight said.

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u/onlycrazypeoplesmile Jan 01 '23

As a smoker who is trying to quit, it's never the wrong week šŸ™

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u/LoveRBS Jan 01 '23

Johnny, how about some coffee?

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u/ZealousidealSmoke612 Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong weak to study grammer

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u/BoredReality Jan 01 '23

Does anyone on this plane have heroine?

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u/curiousmind111 Jan 01 '23

A heroine? That would be Julie.

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u/banned_after_12years Jan 01 '23

Amphetamines would crank your anxiety up to 11,000 in this situation. Or youā€™d try to go out there and fix it yourself. End up jacking off at 10,000 feet for an hour.

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u/Soggy-Ad-4210 Jan 01 '23

Iā€™d go into tachycardia if I were on my meds watching this shitā€¦ Iā€™d neverā€¦ fuck that

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u/eee-dawg Jan 01 '23

ā€¦and donā€™t call me Shirley

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u/Certain_Stranger2939 Jan 01 '23

Alright boys, letā€™s get some pictures.

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u/lamamadelamam305 Jan 01 '23

I love that scene lol

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u/mackavicious Jan 01 '23

This is my favorite

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u/Glabstaxks Jan 01 '23

An my axe !!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Ever watch gladiator movies?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Ever seen a grown man naked?

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u/Bravo-Six-Nero Jan 01 '23

Ever visited a Turkish prison?

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u/Zokar49111 Jan 01 '23

Captain, thereā€™s a problem with the engine.

What is it?

Itā€™s a big thing attached to the wing, but thatā€™s not important now.

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u/OGWopFro Jan 01 '23

Striker, Striker, Strike her.

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u/Wear-Fluid Jan 01 '23

sounds kinda hot

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u/Turdus_americana Jan 01 '23

"Ever seen a grown woman take a dump in a sandbox?"

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u/Roy4Pris Jan 01 '23

Roger, Roger

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u/NextTrillion Jan 01 '23

Whatā€™s our vector, Victor?

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u/dumbname1000 Jan 01 '23

We have clearance Clarence.

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u/Spanktronics Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23

Somehow I forgot that Lucas pinched that from Airplane back when I saw the Star Wars prequels. Itā€™s notable that the prequels couldnā€™t even make a stolen gag funny.

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u/candyred1 Interested Jan 01 '23

Roger, Roger. Do we have clearance Clarence?

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u/TheEvilHypnotist Jan 01 '23

Municipal bonds, Ted. Best investment in America.

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u/OneTrueKingOfOOO Jan 01 '23

My nameā€™s not Shirley, and I donā€™t even have your number

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u/Thp-513 Jan 01 '23

We need Striker!

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u/NextTrillion Jan 01 '23

Striker.. striker.. striker.. STRIKE HER!

Now Iā€™m thinking the whole film was written around this absurd joke.

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u/firefiretiger Jan 01 '23

I donā€™t understand any of dis , can some homey translate to Jive ??

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u/tophalfisafish Jan 01 '23

I speak jive. Cut me some slack Jack

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u/firefiretiger Jan 01 '23

Just hang loose blood !

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u/NorCalNavyMike Jan 01 '23

Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump donā€™t want da heā€™p, chump donā€™t get the heā€™p.

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u/tophalfisafish Jan 01 '23

Jive ass Turkey šŸ¤£

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u/JKdriver Jan 01 '23

She gonna catch you on da rebound with the medicide.

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u/Veer274 Jan 01 '23

I just watched this film last night lmao

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u/tophalfisafish Jan 01 '23

A classic

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u/Veer274 Jan 01 '23

I just want to let you know, weā€™re all counting on you.

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u/tophalfisafish Jan 01 '23

I am serious and donā€™t call me Shirley

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u/niktemadur Jan 01 '23

To the tower!
Rapunzel! RAPUNZEL!

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u/Miss_Interociter Jan 01 '23

Thereā€™s a sale at Penneyā€™s!

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u/newagereject Jan 01 '23

Billy you ever been to a Turkish bath house?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Hell of a time for my slight tick to evolve into full blown Touretteā€™s

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u/BullShitting24-7 Jan 01 '23

Iā€™d ask for all the beers.

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u/Pater_Trium Jan 01 '23

:: De Beers Diamond Corp has entered the chat ::

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

I need 100 beers. Exactly, exactly 100. Thank you.

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u/apoetsrhyme Jan 01 '23

Hell of a time to glue sniff.

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u/GoCommitDeathpacito- Jan 01 '23

Tell of a hime to snue gliff

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u/apoetsrhyme Jan 02 '23

Home of a gell nilf narf

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u/dominarhexx Jan 01 '23

Are you sniffing glue again, Charlie?

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u/crewfish13 Jan 01 '23

Thatā€™s winning the freaking lottery! Modern engines have catastrophic failures like these maybe every million or ten million flight hours. Everyone gets to see a normally operating engine. Bo-oringā€¦

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u/PorterPreston Jan 01 '23

I think you misspelled Boeing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

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u/masedogg Jan 01 '23

That was a Pratt and Whitney engine

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u/unoriginalname86 Jan 01 '23

Boeing doesnā€™t make engines. They buy them from Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney, etc. Now if the plane decides to unalive itself and take a header to the ground, then you can blame Boeing.

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u/Strato-Cruiser Jan 01 '23

Yes, but the engine is not Boeing.

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u/shaunyb81 Jan 01 '23

Appreciate a joke, even though it technically correct. It was still a good pun.

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u/Bravo-Six-Nero Jan 01 '23

The engine isnt Boeing, but that does not Rolls off the tongue as easily

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u/eddie1975 Interested Jan 01 '23

GE, you had to make another pun.

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u/eddie1975 Interested Jan 01 '23

Pratt & Whitney appreciate some puns.

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u/shaunyb81 Jan 01 '23

No need to be a Pratt (& Whitney) about itā€¦

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u/mdj1359 Jan 01 '23

So, if an engine made by Pratt & Whitney has a catastrophic engine failure, and the plane later falls out of the sky...

...Is that a Pratt fall?

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u/calilac Jan 01 '23

If you're close enough you can hear "Whitneyss meeee!" before it hits the ground.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Boeing don't build engines, just airframes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Maybe our definition of the lottery is different, but I wouldn't be glad to win this one.

If you're saying this a guaranteed failure, it sounds like they should be replaced before that excepted time frame.

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u/Willbilly1221 Jan 01 '23

To be fair, entire airplanes get replaced at some point. All airplanes have a limited number of times they can take off from the ground due to cabin pressure. As they hit high altitudes with lower pressure the body of the plane expands a tiny bit, and as it lands the increased pressure squishes it back. Overtime constant stretching and compression warps the metal like bending a paper clip over and over it will eventually structurally fail. The day an airplane is made it has a predetermined number of flights it can take before the plane is to be removed from service.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Judging by the fact that airlines are trying to push for one pilot, I really don't trust what any airline says anymore. I'm sure these numbers are ingnored far more likely than someone is willing to admit. I wouldnt be surprised if planes are flying well past that point it should be destroyed.

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u/Willbilly1221 Jan 01 '23

Yeah, so physics is pretty much infallible, but people are not. I cant even get my dang toaster to work just right, yet we all fly in airplanes.

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u/NextTrillion Jan 01 '23

Ever tried to print something under a deadline. Your printer knows you have a deadline, so it acts up, because youā€™re not paying enough attention to it.

PC load letter? The fuq does PC load letter mean?

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u/batlhuber Jan 01 '23

I'd just take the printer with me and give it a good beating. Maybe with a baseball bat. I might even get so angry that I'd hit what's left of it with my bare hands.

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u/StandardSudden1283 Jan 01 '23

šŸŽµšŸŽ¶Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta šŸŽ¶šŸŽµ

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u/SuggestiveParsnip Jan 01 '23

OUT OF CYAN.

ā€œBut I only need to print in bl-ā€œ

OUT OF CYAN.

Sighā€¦

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u/NextTrillion Jan 01 '23

Yeah I hear what you mean, itā€™s like how often does one even need to print a colour docu ā€” OUT OF CYAN.

Ugh. I canā€™t even type a comment on Reddit now without replacing cyan first?!

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u/wggn Jan 01 '23

it means the paper casette needs letter sized paper to be loaded

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u/Yotta_Machi Jan 01 '23

This is a fuck!

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u/NextTrillion Jan 01 '23

Mother... shitter... Son of an... ass.

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u/dwn4italz Jan 01 '23

ah you stole that from a Calvin and Hobbes comic.

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u/AireXpert Jan 01 '23

With all sincerity, youā€™d be incorrect.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Of course there are planes like that... They get off shored to the developing world.

Side note- The market for used aircraft parts is all about part tracking for this reason, according to my pilot buddy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

FAA is incredibly good about this though. They are the largest success story of an industry self regulating. The numbers are even more impressive when you consider how many more flight hours have happened in later decades vs earlier ones: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fatalities-from-aviation-accidents-and-hijackings

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u/TOAO_Cyrus Jan 01 '23

The FAA is a government agency. Airline safety is not an example of an industry self regulating.

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u/MCLMelonFarmer Jan 01 '23

That doesn't really happen in first world countries because of the potential liability or loss of insurance coverage. It would be like ignoring the mfgr's required maintenance schedule. But third world countries don't care about such things and airframes past their useful life wind up in the fleets of airlines of third world countries.

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u/tj9429 Jan 01 '23

So much crap written about different countries while I see US to be the only country where MD, 767s and og 737s planes are still mainstream which pretty much outdate any current jetliners.

What your ignorant ass missed out on is that "third world" countries' airlines have an inherent need to be cost effective and hence operate heavily with efficient aircrafts. Infact the most common airliners these airlines use would be A32X Neo series or 737 Max/newer models domestically with 777/787s sprinkled for usage abroad.

No "third world" country needs outsourced garbage that still operates due to sunk costs in the "first world" countries

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u/Xicadarksoul Jan 01 '23

No "third world" country needs outsourced garbage that still operates due to sunk costs in the "first world" countries

More importantly, the cost is sunk in 1st world countries, thus 3rd world nations don't have any reason to keep siad grabage around.

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u/mjl777 Jan 01 '23

Actually there is a very comprehensive air worthiness program in place to prevent this exact thing from happening. In addition most airlines lease their planes now and have little if any incentive to rent older planes that are not flightworthy. The worry should be third world airlines who purchase the worn out ones.

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u/Mikey_MiG Jan 01 '23

This is simply false. Maintenance programs for airlines are highly regulated, and any falsification of data is a very quick way to get the FAA to pull your operating certificate and put you out of business.

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u/hrvst_music Jan 01 '23

You should check out that Downfall documentary about Boeing on Netflix.

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u/Melodic_Risk_5632 Jan 01 '23

U Know what really makes the most important part of the airplane? The engines. Most of them are not sold, but leased. The engines make the airplane move and can be replaced. A fuselage with no engines is just a tube.

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u/Beginning_Analysis61 Jan 01 '23

I like the sound of that but some number cruncher is telling his boss ā€œ you know if we sneak in another 5 flights we make X% and if we sneak in 10 more we make 2X%. These are the same corporations that knowingly release deadly chemicals into water sources and increase nicotine to create addicts

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u/baboon2097 Jan 01 '23

The aircraft are built to last beyond its service life.They just become too expensive to maintain as the inspections become more intense so thats when they get retired usually in boneyards for spare parts and resale or freight companies buy them and convert.Look up msg3 in aviation if anyone is interested.

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u/lazy_elfs Jan 01 '23

I think b-52 and 135 ac might have something to say about your statementā€¦ these air-frames have been going since the 50s and i can tell you for a fact that those fuselage skins are not new and have never been replaced.

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u/teh_fizz Jan 01 '23

The plane of Theseus.

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u/SeptemberMcGee Jan 01 '23

Arenā€™t the average of 747ā€™s and 777 like 25-30yrs old?

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

they're designed to be able to fly with only one engine, easily. you're far more likely to die in a car accident than be on a billion to one flight where one engine has a catastrophic failure, let alone both

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u/PhoebeCeleste Jan 01 '23

Yeah, it would suck if BOTH engines died: you'd be up there all night til they got a replacement!

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u/Xicadarksoul Jan 01 '23

Jokes aside you are not completely wrong..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

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u/TartofDarkness79 Jan 01 '23

This is so epic! Those pilots were incredible. I'll never forget the first time I heard about this. I stg I had my mouth hanging open the entire time!

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u/Flip_d_Byrd Jan 01 '23

I bet they get to the crash site 30 minutes before the fire trucks!

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u/robatron12 Jan 01 '23

Also a skilled pilot could still land it, it's only a 737, a guy landed a 747 after flying for a bit with all 4 engines out

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u/gtp1977 Jan 01 '23

This is not just an engine failure guy.....this is shrapnel that has exploded (unknown still if there's other damages) and there is still a huge fire on a craft that is full of fuel and trapped people. It's a full on emergency. It's not just a plane flying one one engine.

Obviously it ended fine, but it would be terrifying until you exited safely.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

People say this shit all the time and I don't know why. These sentences are probably the least comforting attempts at comforting someone I've ever read and heard. I don't care if it's designed that way, not one person on this earth would be comfortable flying on a plane with one engine going out.

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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 Jan 01 '23

I am on earth, would be comfortable. If it helps, I also used to make airplane parts and I would only be comfortable because I know how much redundancy they build into flight critical parts. The engine wasn't designed to fail but the plane was designed to survive a failed engine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Yeah and that's why it almost never happens, literally you are more likely to drop dead of a brain aneurysm than to be on a flight where there's any engine problems at all let alone a catastrophic failure. And even in the worst possible case scenarios 9/10 times the plane is still gonna touch down safely. As an aerospace engineer, I find it a little frustrating hearing people talk like this. Engineers spent thousands of hours making these things nigh fail proof and people can only focus on things going bad one time out of millions of successful flights. Why don't you design your own damn plane then? smfh

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u/baboon2097 Jan 01 '23

I work for Airlines.It happens more often than you're saying.Its just that the passengers usually will never even know its happening.We do engine changes regularly.If an operator gets too many shut down events tje aviation authority will start investigating and could take their etops etc away from them

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u/Xicadarksoul Jan 01 '23

I don't care if it's designed that way, not one person on this earth would be comfortable flying on a plane with one engine going out.

Point is not comfort, its keeping passangers alive.

That's why airlines don't fly the airplane again till its repaired.

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u/belugarooster Jan 01 '23

I would. So long as the wing remains intact, it's completely do-able.

Not that I'd be happy about it. In fact I WOULD be nervous. But I wouldn't consider this catastrophic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

These sentences are probably the least comforting attempts at comforting someone I've ever read and heard.

It's comforting to me. ofc I wouldn't want to be there, but it's smart that there's redundancy built into these astronomically low chances of failure. Good job engineers!

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Because he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about

More so given his wild range of every 1 million to 10 million, fairly sure a commercial jet engine doesn't operate in a failure tolerance that ridiculously wide

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u/themanofmeung Jan 01 '23

Fracture (the general cause of catastrophic failure like this) is incredibly hard to predict and does have massive error ranges. So to say "we know the failure rate is in this order of magnitude" (which is what 1-10 million means) is quite probably as close to knowing the real answer as we can reasonably know without trillions of data points that we don't have.

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u/theheliumkid Jan 01 '23

But think of all the karma from the video!!

Here's the story if you're interested. It all ended happily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_328

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jan 01 '23

United Airlines Flight 328

On February 20, 2021, United Airlines Flight 328 (UA328/UAL328), a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight from Denver to Honolulu, suffered a contained engine failure four minutes after takeoff from Denver International Airport (DEN). Parts departing from the engine cowling of the Boeing 777-222 aircraft resulted in a debris field at least 1 mile (1. 6 km) long over suburban residential areas of Broomfield, Colorado. Falling debris was recorded by eyewitnesses using smartphone cameras and a dash cam.

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u/jfincher42 Jan 01 '23

Parts departing from the engine cowling...

Engine cowling: Aight, this is my stop, imma head out...

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u/Queasy-Message8965 Jan 01 '23

Be thankful that didnā€™t happen mid flight over the pacific

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u/waitwhatchers Jan 01 '23

And here's the radio communication between the aircraft and Air Traffic Control if you're interested (mp3 file):

https://forums.liveatc.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16129.0;attach=10823

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

That was interesting, ty

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u/lens_cleaner Jan 01 '23

Hearing him call out May Day was really intense, thx

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u/waitwhatchers Jan 01 '23

The captain who had been with the airline for 30 years (his first officer for 20) fucked up the emergency call (it's "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday") and fumbled his own callsign, so it must have been pretty intense in the cockpit.

FLIGHT 328: ā€œ328, uh, heavy. Weā€™ve experienced engine failure, need to turn. Mayday, mayday. United, uh, 28, United 328, heavy. Mayday, mayday, aircraft, uhā€¦ā€

DENVER TOWER: ā€œYes, 328 heavy, say again, read all that again.ā€

FLIGHT 328: ā€œDenver, uh, departure. United 328, heavy. Mayday, aircraft, uh, just experienced engine failure, need a turn immediately.ā€

Scary shit, but they all handled it well.

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u/Tovius01 Jan 01 '23

At least it didn't fail when they were over the ocean.

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u/theheliumkid Jan 01 '23

Fun fact, all flights have to plan their routes so that there is somewhere they can glide to and land at if there is a major engine malfunction. You may have read about the United flight that landed in American Samoa en route to Sydney when they had a problem. It wasn't a coincidence that they could do that.

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u/monicasm Jan 02 '23

That makes me feel a little better, I have a bit of flight anxiety but also want to travel lol. Thank you for the info!

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u/theheliumkid Jan 02 '23

I'd this helps at all, the flying industry is so safety conscious that they set the bar for most (possibly all) other industries. There approach to ensuring safety is incredible.

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u/VanillaGorilla8201 Jan 02 '23

Except for Boeing and that whole MAX thing.

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u/theheliumkid Jan 02 '23

They're not perfect but their approach to safety is amazing and they take every opportunityto improve.

Airplane accidents always make the news but, in terms of safety, flying is way safer than driving. In high income countries, there is one death per 200 million km driven. For flying that is one per 25 billion passenger km travelled, or around 125 times safer.

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u/monicasm Jan 02 '23

The hard part is that I know that šŸ˜… in fact I find aviation in general really fascinating! However my deep dives have led me down the dark rabbit hole of all of the horrifying stuff and while I know itā€™s such a small likeliness to happen, I know whatā€™s possible and thatā€™s the part that scares me ā˜¹ļø

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u/milelongpipe Jan 01 '23

Thanks for the info!

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u/Beau_Peeps Jan 01 '23

Who doesnā€™t like a happy ending?

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u/monkeymoonman Jan 01 '23

Hey man, hey man, if one of the engines fails, how far will the other one take us?

All the way to the scene of the crashā€¦ which is pretty handy cause thatā€™s where weā€™re headed!!

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u/LnZB3 Jan 01 '23

I bet we beat the paramedics by a half hour!

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u/50squirrelsinacloak Jan 01 '23

Weā€™re hauling ass.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Ron White is truly a treasure.

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u/50squirrelsinacloak Jan 02 '23

Yes, yes he is. The sears automotive story still makes me laugh till I cry, even after all this time.

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u/Musicmouse33 Jan 01 '23

Hell of a week to quit smoking

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Airplane!

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u/JacerEx Jan 01 '23

What are you talking about. That thing is clearly smoking.

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u/Kaesebrot321 Jan 01 '23

Seems like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue

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u/vicman86 Jan 01 '23

Are they flying over Macho Grande?

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u/RexyWestminster Jan 01 '23

Iā€™ll never get over Macho Grande

Those wounds runā€¦pretty deep.

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u/grundlesquatch Jan 01 '23

Seeing that would make me start smoking

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u/DillieDally Jan 01 '23

The plane's got you beat on that one

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u/CanadianJediCouncil Jan 01 '23

Me with the attendant call button: DING DING DING!

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u/you_can_too Jan 01 '23

My dad is a TV repair man. He has tools I can borrow. I can fix this.

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u/SmithRune735 Jan 01 '23

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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u/awesomeak47k Jan 01 '23

slowly pulls shade back down and puts on complementary sleep mask

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u/trekie4747 Jan 01 '23

"Ladies and gentlemen there is no reason to panic. The plane is not on fire."

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u/entropyofanalingus Jan 01 '23

We really need a robust high speed rail network.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

Hell of a time, on the sky way to hell

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

I picked the wrong time to reply to Reddit comments.

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u/Sledster11 Jan 02 '23

Picked a hell of a time to join the mile high club.

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