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Old 04-17-2018, 12:06 PM
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One person was killed and seven others were injured Tuesday after a Southwest Airlines plane engine apparently blew midair, officials said.

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Old 04-17-2018, 12:59 PM
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God this is terrible, I thought the airplane was supposed to be resistant to shrapnel and fan blades. Any clue how this happened?
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It's an uncontained failure. Pretty much means what it says. It happens.
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God this is terrible, I thought the airplane was supposed to be resistant to shrapnel and fan blades. Any clue how this happened?
There's nothing in the history of airplanes that should lead you to think that. It's happened several times.
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God this is terrible, I thought the airplane was supposed to be resistant to shrapnel and fan blades.
The airplane's not. But the fan housing is. So probably two issues:

1) Why the failure?
2) Why was it not contained as designed?

Since it looks like the fairing/fan housing departed the plane (and on at least one other SWA plane), that may offer a hint as to the failure of containment.
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One person was killed and seven others were injured Tuesday after a Southwest Airlines plane engine apparently blew midair, officials said.

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If you want to see everything that is wrong with our society. Read the comments......I would say they are like a bunch of ignorant crackhead apes. But that would be an insult to crackheads and apes.
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Mostly the apes.
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Sad, isn’t it, Airhoss?. Worse, the media is just as ignorant as the apes and feeds the apes and crackheads.

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Sad, isn’t it, Airhoss?. Worse, the media is just as ignorant as the apes and feeds the apes and crackheads.

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'Twas ever thus. As Samuel Clemmons once said, 'The very ink of history is merely fluid prejudice.'
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Sad, isn’t it, Airhoss?. Worse, the media is just as ignorant as the apes and feeds the apes and crackheads.

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People are shockingly stupid. Social media gives these idiots a spotlight and an open mic.
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