>>1088603

Dislodge the fan? As in the fan hub assembly? That is intact. At least one of the fan blades came loose. The containment issue is another story. They set up engines in wind tunnels and shoot frozen geese, turkeys, big ass objects through them while they're throttled up just to see if it'll cause an engine failure. Engine usually chews it up, spits it out but even if it fails, the failure is contained. This was like something I've never seen before. However I'm not an engineerfag, just a lifelong enthusiast.

Anyone have a head-on picture of the engine so we can see which fan blades are fractured/gone, how many, etc.

>>1088687

Inertia

>>1088728

This board serves no one. It is a conduit.

>>1088756

Not much force. Just an invisible crack in one of the fan blades. The tips are traveling at near supersonic or supersonic speeds. The kinetic energy is immense. The issue is containment of the failure. As in every failsafe, failed. That SHOULD NOT happen. Ever. But it looks like Southwest may have some engine maintenance issues, given the fact that a practically identical event happened in 2016, minus blowing out a window. Shrapnel did pierce the fuselage but didn't pierce the cabin, I believe.

>>1088787

Not sure which version of the engine was on that particular aircraft. Most blades are made from titanium but GE is now using composite blades. Or was testing them.

>>1088809

My brother used to work maintenance/overhaul for a major carrier (since folded). Was an avionics tech but he would tell me about how lazy the A&P mechanics were. But this was long before all this AA hire craze. The type of union members who do bare minimum. Honestly would not shock me. Remember that American DC-10 at O'Hare that had an engine pylon fail, engine folded up and over the wing and basically severed the wing. That was due to American's maintenance of the aircraft. Improperly mounting the engine to the pylon after overhaul IIRC.

>>1088935

I've also concluded that it's a freak accident. There's no way to target a particular person with a fan blade. Inertia controls vector and velocity. Microscopic crack in the fan blade can and will cause this. The Kevlar failing, I dunno. I don't have a plausible explanation for that but it's simply impossible to predict what will happen to the fan blades in an uncontained engine failure.

It can't embarrass Trump since Southwest is a private corporation. It sure as shit embarrasses Southwest, though, and would make me think twice about flying Southwest. Looks to me like they have some slack ass A&P mechanics.

>>1089022

The question is not only who can predict which direction the fan blades will travel when the engine experiences an uncontained failure but who can predict where a person will be sitting inside of an aircraft owned by an airline that does not assign seats before boarding. You're pretty far down the rabbit hole.