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Posted by leemitcheltree on Sunday, July 6, 2008 3:45 AM
LMAO!!!  The front fell off.....John Clarke and Brian Dawe have been icons on Oz tv for more than a decade...very funny stuff...

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Posted by Jim Barton on Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:19 PM
 Big Mike wrote:

It happend in Cape Town South Africa end of last year. the airline has since gone under.

 

Gee, I wonder why...Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by Yura K on Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:57 AM
 jwb wrote:

 Yura K wrote:
The word on the street is that the maintenance wasn't performed properly, and the attachment points of the engine to the wing were not tightened properly. However, the "official" newspaper excuse for this was that the engine ingested a bird, and "engines are designed to fall away after taking damage, so that no further damage to the wing can take place". I had a good laugh...

LOL.... that sounds like the "Front Fell Off" type of excuse....

 

 

Laugh [(-D]  Yep, it sound like a very similar excuse!

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Posted by jwb on Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:00 AM

 Yura K wrote:
The word on the street is that the maintenance wasn't performed properly, and the attachment points of the engine to the wing were not tightened properly. However, the "official" newspaper excuse for this was that the engine ingested a bird, and "engines are designed to fall away after taking damage, so that no further damage to the wing can take place". I had a good laugh...

LOL.... that sounds like the "Front Fell Off" type of excuse....

 

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Posted by constructor on Saturday, June 28, 2008 6:43 AM
How could anything like this possibly happen? What! no maintenance at all. If it happened, it could have been hanging by a thread!
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Posted by Dr. Faust on Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:32 AM

I hate it when that happens. It really takes the fun out of flying.

The passengers exiting the aircraft can be quite harsh with their comments.

Just build it (and post pics when youre done)

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Posted by namrednef on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:35 PM
 roadkill_275 wrote:
 HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

In some parts of the world the bugs are bigger than some birds...how will they explain that one away? LOL

Every take a Pine Beetle in the head at 65 mph? I have, luckily I had a full face helmet on, it darn near took my head off. I had to flip my visor up and stop to clean the carnage off the helmet. I thought I was hit a small bird. 

 Got hit by a June Bug several years ago. I was running about 70 on the interstate and it hit me right were the helmet ended and my forehead began. I still have a scar from it.

I caught a June bug in the neck at highway speed 30 years ago.........there is still a discolored spot to the left of the Adam's Apple.....didn't bleed....but left a whelt that lasted a loooooooong time!

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Posted by jeaton01 on Friday, June 27, 2008 10:11 PM
If it hit a bird, where's the damage to the stator and fan?

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Posted by Mckay on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:02 PM

That would really boost your confidence in the airline.

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Posted by willuride on Friday, June 27, 2008 6:38 PM
 roadkill_275 wrote:
 HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

In some parts of the world the bugs are bigger than some birds...how will they explain that one away? LOL

Every take a Pine Beetle in the head at 65 mph? I have, luckily I had a full face helmet on, it darn near took my head off. I had to flip my visor up and stop to clean the carnage off the helmet. I thought I was hit a small bird. 

 Got hit by a June Bug several years ago. I was running about 70 on the interstate and it hit me right were the helmet ended and my forehead began. I still have a scar from it.

 

Hence the screen name roadkill?  Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by soulcrusher on Friday, June 27, 2008 6:20 PM

Note to self - remember to torque engine mount bolts.

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Posted by Kit builder on Friday, June 27, 2008 4:27 PM

Well, I can't see the aft mountings in those pics, but the fwd ones tell a lot.

You can clearly see the outboard fwd mounting is intact, with its bushing still in place, whilst the inner mounting has sheared.  This would tend to indicate that the outboard bolt had either not been fitted, or if it was, it wasn't locked and worked loose, eventually falling free. The torque of the engine at take-off power probably placed a high assymetric loading on the inner mounting, causing it to fail, allowing the engine to drop forward.

If I recall correctly, the rear mounting is nothing more than an alignment pin, which will have simply disengaged as the engine fell away.

The pilot did a superb job in handling this event, but with the benefit of some accident investigation experience, I'd have to say that poor maintenance procedures were directly, or indirectly, to blame for this.

If the airline has now gone bust, it may have been experiencing difficulties at the time of this incident, which usually leads to shortcutting in maintenance and training.

If only....
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Posted by roadkill_275 on Friday, June 27, 2008 2:27 PM
 HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

In some parts of the world the bugs are bigger than some birds...how will they explain that one away? LOL

Every take a Pine Beetle in the head at 65 mph? I have, luckily I had a full face helmet on, it darn near took my head off. I had to flip my visor up and stop to clean the carnage off the helmet. I thought I was hit a small bird. 

 Got hit by a June Bug several years ago. I was running about 70 on the interstate and it hit me right were the helmet ended and my forehead began. I still have a scar from it.

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Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Friday, June 27, 2008 2:22 PM

In some parts of the world the bugs are bigger than some birds...how will they explain that one away? LOL

Every take a Pine Beetle in the head at 65 mph? I have, luckily I had a full face helmet on, it darn near took my head off. I had to flip my visor up and stop to clean the carnage off the helmet. I thought I was hit a small bird. 

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Posted by Yura K on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:36 PM
The word on the street is that the maintenance wasn't performed properly, and the attachment points of the engine to the wing were not tightened properly. However, the "official" newspaper excuse for this was that the engine ingested a bird, and "engines are designed to fall away after taking damage, so that no further damage to the wing can take place". I had a good laugh...
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:21 PM
 Big Mike wrote:

It happend in Cape Town South Africa end of last year. the airline has since gone under.

Maybe they were trying to cut fuel costs?
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Posted by Big Mike on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:18 PM

It happend in Cape Town South Africa end of last year. the airline has since gone under.

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Posted by davros on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:15 PM

 painklr wrote:
Thats crazy!!!  And I was getting over my fear of flying.  Well i guess back to road trips.

I don't have any fear of flying. It's crashing that scares the XXXX out of me.

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Posted by cdclukey on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:14 PM

Good work by the crew, but when and where did this happen?

 

 

 

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Posted by painklr on Friday, June 27, 2008 1:00 PM
Thats crazy!!!  And I was getting over my fear of flying.  Well i guess back to road trips.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 27, 2008 12:59 PM
Should use CA next time...
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737 engine falls off on take off
Posted by Big Mike on Friday, June 27, 2008 12:54 PM

Good day

This Boing 737 engine fell off just as it took to the air, the engine fell on the runway the pilot was able to still fly the plane, turned it around and landed safely, hats off to the pilot.

Scary stuff!!!

Mike

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