[BenLurkin]

Definitely a "glass half full" kind of person.

[mewzilla]

Wings have eyes!

Who knew!

[Yo-Yo]

Looking at the video in the original article, it looks like compressor stall to me. Dramatic, but ultimately not dangerous.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Were flames seen by Wing?”
“Yes”
“May I speak with him? He could have valuable information.”
“No. they took him to the hospital.”
“Hospital? What is it?”
“It’s a big building full of sick people. But that’s not important now. I must speak with Wing.”
“But he got sick!”
“Over Macho Grande?”
“Oh, I don’t think he’ll ever get over that. Those wounds run pretty deep.”

[PGR88]

I kept reassuring myself we’d be OK because we had only been in the air for a minute.”

Most air crashes occur due to problems occurring within 10 minutes of take-off.

[nuconvert]

How come it doesn’t say what kind of plane?

[toldyou]

Amazing what makes the news today.

“The airline said the flight landed safely and passengers deplaned normally.”

I was a flight attendant for the same airline and was involved in emergency landings a few times. Evacuated the passengers down the slides. Never made the news. They really do try to keep it quiet, but now passengers run to the media.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[bgill]

Seems to be a lot of mechanical troubles with planes this month.

[SunkenCiv]

Some celebutard or other D politician will tweet, blaming white supremacy.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

The newest Boeing planes are all showing signs of shoddiness.

[Grimmy]

Where did the wing see the fire?

How good is that wing’s eye sight?

Does that wing have any history of visual hallucinations?