Any comments on the 777 engine explosion at Las Vegas?
Thanks for calling this to my attention as a possible “kill zone” event. My personal health issues have clouded my cognitive ability so badly that when I saw this story it didn’t even occur to me that this could have been a drone strike!
The 777 is a poor choice of airframe for a terrorist to hit because each engine can easily lift the plane off the runway by itself. There really aren’t as many kill zone probabilities per se with this aircraft like there could be with a 707 or 747 4-engine airframe under certain conditions that a terrorist could more likely exploit in the research that I have done.
It will be interesting to see what caused the engine to fail in this instance.
Did the engine fail due to some internal flaw or did it ingest something...like a bird or drone?
If it was a drone, was it some stupid local idiot or a terrorist drone, such as the sort of one that I have been warning about?
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Early findings show the failure occurred where the engine was under the highest pressure, though there was no immediate indication of what caused it or the fire that forced 170 people to evacuate Tuesday at McCarran International Airport as smoke poured from the aircraft.
“You really don’t see catastrophic or uncontained engine failure like this very often,” said John Cox, an aviation safety consultant who spent 23 years as a U.S. Airways pilot. He said the failure indicates parts sliced through the engine casing.
The National Transportation Safety Board said there was damage to the armored shell around the left engine’s high-pressure compressor, and several 7- to 8-inch fragments of the compressor were found on the tarmac.
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