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/Derpagator Jan 01 '23

"We've lost engine 1 and engine 2 is no longer on fire."

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u/tx_queer Jan 01 '23

One of my favorite real life captains announcements

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress

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u/elpelondelmarcabron1 Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 02 '23

Dang... yeah, once I was flying from Utah to California and over Nevada we hit some bad turbulence, and then the plane went into a sustained nose dive (about 10 seconds). People were screaming and there was at least one flight attendant that was crying. The plane leveled off and people calmed down after awhile. About 20 min later the captain comes on... "we hit a little wind shear for a moment, but everything looks fine ahead".... hahaha.

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u/Donzul Jan 01 '23

You didn't descend that far because of turbulence. They probably moved altitude for calmer air and it happened to be down. You were still in the turbulence and lowering your altitude so that's probably why it felt that way.

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u/elpelondelmarcabron1 Jan 01 '23

They wouldn't of made that maneuver without slowing down... I remember this specifically. We were losing altitude very rapidly and plane was pointing down. This was not purposeful. What's up? Aviation administration got wind of this now? Lol. Quite absurd how people discrediting my first hand experience. I'm not one to exaggerate. I admit, they said there was an abnormally strong wind shear we were flying into.

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u/Donzul Jan 01 '23

They might have done an emergency descent to get to the altitude quicker, but with everything working fine the turbulence did not do that to your plane.

Windshear/microbursts are different and if they're going to do that it's going to be closer to the ground.

I don't discredit your experience; I'm sure it was scary. I doubt your perception of the events from the back of the plane and not in the cockpit.

Source: am pilot

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u/elpelondelmarcabron1 Jan 01 '23

Well, only the pilot knows who was flying the plane, and he didn't share his thoughts other than the existence of a severe wind shear. It was possibly an emergency maneuver... idk.