Looking at the pictures of chewed up blades in the exhaust, it's immediately evident that the engine went. Sounds like some great airmanship saved g4's bacon again. Not surprised about an email downplaying the event. That is managements playbook, they have done that all along which is why these incidents keep happening. 13 years of blowing engines and they still happen every other week. Coincidence? Does anyone honestly believe they really care? Not so long as the profits keep rolling in. Could these incidents have been reduced or mitigated with better maintenance? Absolutely. What about newer airplanes instead of trashed out poorly maintained foreign junk. That too. Quite simply, It boils down to spending what is required to run a safe airline instead of raw pursuit of profit at all cost.
Life threatening events have become routine, and aircrews have grown accustomed to the absurd, as seen by comments on this forum. Pilots joining the management chorus, downplaying and making excuses for a company that has lost upwards of 100 engines in flight. Never mind the flight control malfunctions, depressurization's, evacuations, the list goes on. All entirely unacceptable for ANY flight operation, never mind a 121. Given the number of inflight shutdowns and the number of airplanes in their fleet it's crazy they're allowed to keep their certificate. Scaling out the size of the allegiant fleet to that of a major operator, there would be 10 times the number of failures. Does anyone believe the FAA and the public would tolerate such an abomination?
Management was amazed when engine failures weren't limited to the MD-80s and started blowing on the 757s. Now the Airbus. Not surprising as the ops team is apparently now lead by bean counters who know zip about maintenance and operations. Low time pilots, combined with garbage maintenance, beat up airplanes, remote destinations, and a negligent management all combine for a very disturbing picture.
Formula for disaster, history repeating itself. Kudos to the pilots, those passengers have no idea what those guys did. They never do.
Last edited by dawgdriver; 04-29-2016 at 08:38 AM.