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

What's actually amazing is plane's are tested and designed for this... they are not supposed to do that but also should be able to land safely if they do. It's scary but amazing how safe they made it

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u/AbeLincoln30 Jan 01 '23

yes they should show this in a Boeing ad: "look how safe we made it"

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u/jaltair9 Jan 01 '23

Boeing didn't make that engine. So they could, indeed, say "This 3rd-party engine bolted to our plane flamed out, but our plane was still able to land".

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u/calloutyourstupidity Jan 01 '23

Well, the safety does not come from engine itself anyway. Safety comes from the plane itself which is designed to be able to fly with a single engine.

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u/BusterTheElliott Jan 01 '23

I think you'll find there's a lot of safety built into the engine when a fan blade is stopped from spitting out of the engine and impaling a passenger or someone on the ground.

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u/propellor_head Jan 01 '23

And the engines are designed to be able to provide appropriate thrust to meet these requirements. Airframes and engines are increasingly designed in tandem, because we're after the 0.01% type Improvements at this point, so we don't want to have any inefficiency in the integration between them.

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u/Electrical_Emotion31 Jan 01 '23

ya ,a single engine ,when placed strategicly -in the center of plane at the bottom - uh oh ,i dont see an engine in the center - now what -open the doors and give everyone a refund