BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 09:28

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40000040/ns ... siapacific

Interesting video.......a piece penetrated the wing on the uncontained failure.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 09:32

Damn 4 engine airplanes! Too many opportunities for engine failure!

They need to ground the entire fleet. They're far too dangerous.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 09:52

I rode on the Qantas A380 back in August from LA to Melbourne. It is really an impressive aircraft...the quietest I've been on.

John

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 10:04

Hi John

We went downunder at that same time. The A380 was very impressive in smoothness and stability. Even more so than a 747. The flight was sort of like getting in Dr. Who's phone booth. Walk in, shut the door, a little bump (going down the runway), the door opens and you step out in a different world. Very nice experience.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 10:57

Sabotage from a Boeing mole ? :bat:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 11:38

Huge scraps of metal the size of a door rained down on the Indonesian island of Batam near Singapore.

Yikes.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 11:54

The other day, I got onto a Delta flight last-minute and ended up in the cheap seat in row 29 on a DC-9. Your head is about 2ft from the blades of the first compressor stage :bugeye:

. Looking at the images of this uncontained failure with pieces sticking out of the top of the wing makes me feel really warm and fuzzy.....

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 11:59

Username Protected wrote:

The other day, I got onto a Delta flight last-minute and ended up in the cheap seat in row 29 on a DC-9. Your head is about 2ft from the blades of the first compressor stage :bugeye:

. Looking at the images of this uncontained failure with pieces sticking out of the top of the wing makes me feel really warm and fuzzy.....

Similar to being on a B-17 and watching prop tips swing past yer noze. :bugeye:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 12:03

Username Protected wrote:

The other day, I got onto a Delta flight last-minute and ended up in the cheap seat in row 29 on a DC-9. Your head is about 2ft from the blades of the first compressor stage :bugeye:

. Looking at the images of this uncontained failure with pieces sticking out of the top of the wing makes me feel really warm and fuzzy.....

A delta dc9/md80 had an uncontained engine failure in ATL a decade or so ago. 2 people died in those cheap seats (which I've been in once as well :bugeye:

). That airplane is uncertifiable today (at least with the seats back there) as part 25 has new rotor burst zone requirements.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Nov 2010, 12:06

Username Protected wrote:

A delta dc9/md80 had an uncontained engine failure in ATL a decade or so ago. 2 people died in those cheap seats (which I've been in once as well :bugeye:

). That airplane is uncertifiable today (at least with the seats back there) as part 25 has new rotor burst zone requirements.

Thanks. Now I feel a lot better :ohno:

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