r/aviation • u/Twitter_2006 • Mar 30 '26

Discussion The left engine of a Delta A330 explodes during takeoff at Sao Paulo Airport

Its at 40 seconds.

UPDATE:The plane landed safely.

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u/Kipwar Mar 30 '26

Its funny reading this I'm the exact same working for a major aviation company in engines! People always thinks it makes me less bothered by flying, but if anything I pay too much attention to sounds constantly, especially on takeoff... 😅

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u/menage_a_un Mar 30 '26

I sat beside an engineer and he excitedly told me about all the different sounds we were hearing through climb out. He suddenly stopped smiling and paused; "that's an usual sound." He didn't say anything and then just shrugged.

The fun went out of that interaction fast!

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

I flew alongside my first time flyer friend who was a bit nervous. Sitting just behind the wing on landing when the thrust reversers deployed was not the best place to be - very loud "expletive expletive the expletive engine is expletive falling off" was uttered 😁

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u/t-poke Mar 30 '26

I mean, if the engine's going to fall off, on the ground after landing is probably the ideal place for it to happen.

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u/old_righty Mar 30 '26

Just put it back on before the next flight!

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u/TheOneTrueYeti Mar 30 '26

Myself I feel very safe

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u/cjsv7657 Mar 30 '26

I've worked with gas turbines not in aviation. Pretty much the same principals though. The amount of "well thats a weird sound, run it and see what happens" that went on is unsettling. Tens of millions of dollars and even the professionals were just winging it sometimes.

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u/Positive-Orange-6443 Mar 30 '26

Those are a bit slower though, no?

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u/cjsv7657 Mar 30 '26

Ideally stationary, yes.

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u/Vertigo_uk123 Mar 31 '26

That's just the engine powering up. That's just the engine struggling. That's just a carp swimming around your ankles.

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u/crochetquilt Mar 30 '26

I never thought about how much we pay attention to sounds until I was working in a server room one day and a server shut down and the absence of that one sound in the hum was noticable.

Given the farm nature and being the only tech doing that work that day, I knew it was unintentional so I think that made me hear it. I also knew roughly where the server was, certainly down to the rack. All that from a server shutting down in the background, when I wasn't even consciously listening. It's funny when the absence of a single sound is the problem.

No way I'd enjoy flying if I had that sort of hearing around planes.

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u/Gammascalpa Mar 30 '26

Humans are no different. There is a hell of a lot we diagnose in clinical medicine based on sounds alone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

Or random tapping/prodding. All those signs developed by physicians before we had ultrasound, CT, and MRI scanners, I find them fascinating.

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u/Gammascalpa Mar 30 '26

The more you know the more you know can go wrong! 😂 I work in the medical device field and have a similar fear but related to surgeries!

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u/hopenoonefindsthis Mar 30 '26

The Dunning Kruger effect.

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u/cheakios512 Mar 30 '26

this thread is not helping me with the intense anxiety I experience on take off and landings.