AmericanAirFan From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 397 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 5806 times:
Whoa isnt there a law against the The usage of the engine? What type of airplane was that? and what airline?
-AmericanAirFan
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LifelinerOne From Netherlands, joined Nov 2003, 1880 posts, RR: 8 Reply 3, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 5756 times:
I think it's unbelieveble that such a known carrier as Air China gets involved into something as bad maintenance. China is going to be one of the biggest marktes in the world for leisure and business and if people see this, they wil not chose for Air China...
Just my 2 cents from a bl**dy hot Holland... (the weather is always wrong )
N276AASTT From US Virgin Islands, joined Jan 2004, 620 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 5713 times:
That is truely sad. It's sad that the income of revenue is far more important than people's lives. If I were a passenger and found out that my life had been put in jeopardy like that, all hell would've broken out in China.
Stretch 8 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 2561 posts, RR: 19 Reply 6, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 5689 times:
I recently watched the Discovery channel's program about the crash of AA Flight #191, the DC-10 that went down at ORD in May 1979.
In a re-eenactment of the TO run, passengers look out the windows to see the No.1 engine busting up and off the wing. Now there is something you don't want to see, especially if you are on the aircraft
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Warren747sp From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1131 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 5689 times:
COAMiG29 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 515 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 5524 times:
The fact that it flew is amazing but the airline/cargo service obviously flys the planes till they crash and burn. I have also heard that CAAC the Chinese airline removes the instruments from the cockpits as they do not believe in electronics. Do a photo search on flight decks on caac.
If Continental had a hub at DFW with nonstop flights I would always fly them, unfortunantely good things take time.
Miamiair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 5493 times:
Come on people...
That engine is fodded out. That was either a pterodactyl or it swallowed an RAF Harrier whole. That was not an in-flight occurrence, and no one in their right mind would light the candle on that one.
That looks like somebody took initial evaluation pictures and produced a bogus story.
Francoflier From France, joined Oct 2001, 3195 posts, RR: 10 Reply 11, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 5446 times:
Miamiair: Thank you.
The engine was victim of a FOD, so it was removed from the A/C.
Maybe it was strapped to prevent it from windmilling in order to make a ferry flight on 3 engines, but I refuse to believe any crewmember would, in his sane mind, take off on a revenue flight with only 3 engines. This could simply lead to grounding the whole frickin' airline if the authorities realized.
It is easy to get some pictures of a fodded engine that was strapped for a ferry flight and use it to destroy an Airline or a country's reputation. Plus this is hardly a reliable source, which takes advantage of the fact that there are so many gullible people on the net to make sensationalistic news.
And apparently it works.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit posting...
Spacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3249 posts, RR: 14 Reply 13, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 5329 times:
I agree with those who say it sounds bogus - as soon as I read it I was practically heading for snopes.com to see if it's shown up there. (I don't see it, but it might be there somewhere; might not have propogated enough yet though.)
I would think more likely than making a three-engine ferry flight, though, this engine was probably ferried as a fifth engine, which 747's are capable of carrying. You really can't tell much from these pictures, though.
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StearmanNut From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 352 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 5271 times:
Big problems in replacing big engines in a foreign country. I remember an AN- 124 that sat down at DFW a few years back and had to get a replacement engine flown in from the Ukraine.
Main problem was that Customs would not pass the new engine into the US unless a huge import tariff was paid on it. The other problem was that the maintenance facility had to obtain funds in cash up front from the AN's owners before they would allow the faclities and labor to be used to install the new engine.
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CainanUK From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2002, 547 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 5221 times:
That is clearly not an Air China plane. Air China has grey engine cowlings, and this plane has blue ones if you look at the photos close enough. Get your facts straight before naming and shaming!!
AA777DFW From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 100 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 5177 times:
FoxBravo From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 2801 posts, RR: 5 Reply 19, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 5155 times:
I have some serious doubts about this one. First of all, people love to bash Chinese airlines, but although there was good reason back in the 80s, these days Air China is a reputable airline that I am quite certain would not let a revenue flight take off with an inoperative engine. Furthermore, I don't recall hearing anything about this incident in recent memory, and I am fairly sure that something this scandalous would have been pretty big news in the aviation community. Finally, those photographs mean nothing--the engine is just sitting in a hangar next to what appears to be an Air China aircraft. It is not even installed.
I have no idea what the real story behind the photos might be. Maybe it really happened as described, but 20 years ago. Or, more likely, maybe it's just a photo that is totally out of context. I'm sure the truth is out there somewhere...
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 22, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 5042 times:
>>>No, THIS is what you don't want to see on an aircraft!
Yeek! Mommiiieeee.. Make it stop!!!!
Come to think of it, maybe -that's- what caused the FOD'ed engine in the first place--someone jumping into the running engine rather than have to sit next to MJ...
ASTROJET707 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 299 posts, RR: 6 Reply 24, posted (8 years 9 months 2 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 4978 times:
screaming, crying, infants, out-of-control toddlers and CELLPHONES.
The last thing I want is to be on a transcon with passengers yapping their way from one coast to the next. I enjoy the quiet, it is a break from a hectic schedule.
AJ707
25 Solnabo: OMG!!!!!! The cryptkeeper Jackson.......quick, give me a parachute!! Micke
26 BA: Stirling, Interesting series of shots involving an NW ARJ and a jetway. Where did that happen? It looks like MSP. Here's the link if anyone is curious
27 BR715-A1-30: That ARJ incident happened a couple years ago to ship 528. It was big news then, but then it faded away. That was one of their newest ARJs as well.
28 NoelG: "That is clearly not an Air China plane. Air China has grey engine cowlings, and this plane has blue ones" I'm sorry but I beg to differ. Whilst I agr
29 Luxair: Look at the angle of the wings doesn't look as a 747 but more as a AN124 or IL-76 so I would either conclude that this was a Cargo flight! I don't bel
30 Sevenheavy: Hi all, Neither of the engines in the first picture are attached to an aircraft so they may not even be from the aircraft shown in the background. If
31 Jalalabad: it looks like that wing belongs to a neighboring aircraft, not in the picture. as is a common configuration for parking more than one airplane in a ha
32 TFJamie: I lend no credibility to this story, this is a ridiculous story. I don't have more words on that. To say more about the credibility of this site: http
33 JuniorSpotter: Dudes...worse things have been done by flight crews...*cough*Aero*cough*flot*cough*...damn this cold. But hey...Michael, aka Latoya, Jackson might be
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