Thread: A UPS plane has crashed on take off in Louisville KY.

https://www.youtube.com/live/PuoMok1...0sr5zusa5WpvTt

https://www.youtube.com/live/Rw6CtQJ...54eNUSGV4MLuuy

I think we can say that number 1 engine failed. They've found blades all down the runway. It then fell off and chose not to go flying.

I suspect they were just passengers heading to the scene of the crash after that.

I suspect the bulk of the investigation will be about how an engine failed so catastrophically that it sprayed bits everywhere which likely caused critical damage, and then fell off. The maintenance and past history of this AC is going to be the focus.

Engine failures happen on takeoff and they are supposed to stay contained and pilots are trained to go flying and sort it out later.

https://www.youtube.com/live/srB2ezb...Xgu2LnzdJq2KpG

From the various videos available it looks like when #1 failed it caused an issue with #2. Once #2 went there was no way back.

Not good.

Yes, it seems that #2 ingested parts of #1.
In the case of engine failure, the housing is supposed to contain all parts. That didn't happen in this case.

I saw they think #2 was surging too. Looks like they were just passengers on the way to the scene of the accident.

As Juan points out, there have been pylon failures in the past. The engine thrust has to go somewhere. The engine can rotate up over the wing. The FOD the #2 engine ingested could easily have come from the remains of the pylon. In any case, if the #2 lost thrust all bets were off
They might reconsider siting a fuel recycling plant at the end of the runway.

A bit like the setup at Bourke something like sixty years ago.

Bourke railway station was the end of the line. And the fuel depot was literally, just beyond the station, at the end of the line, after a dead straight section of about 100 miles, with a slow speed limit, because it was a low grade track. It was a long, boring trip.

The engine driver and fireman both went to sleep - and woke up when the train went through the station without stopping, and struck several fuel wagons on the track in the depot.

They were not going very fast, but the wagons ruptured, spilling a large quantity of petrol, and there were enough sparks to ignite it. The fire spread to the main storage tanks at the depot. Apparently it was spectacular.