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Funny Engine Picture (real Or Fake?)

CURLYHEADBOY From Italy, joined Feb 2005, 921 posts, RR: 2
Posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17433 times:

I was surfing this crappy Italian news site when i came across this picture (look to the bottom right of the page) of an engine missing the reverse cowling... is it a real one to you?

Sorry if this is an old story, mods feel free to delete this thread.

http://www.tgcom.it/tgtech/articoli/articolo245537.shtml#

Edited typo.

[Edited 2005-03-07 21:50:58]

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26 replies: All unread, showing first 25:

OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4680 posts, RR: 23
Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17327 times:

Looks real to me. Someone probably had a camera handy when the cowling flew off.

Reminds of when an Ozark DC-9 lost a cowling over Illinois somewhere. Landed safely, but I remember the photos in the paper...looked alot like that.

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AA61Hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59
Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17285 times:

http://www.tgcom.it/bin/498.%24plit/orig_C_0_articolo_245537_listatakes_itemTake_3_immaginetake.jpg

Thats one hell of a loss of parts.

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BMED From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2004, 853 posts, RR: 7
Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17260 times:

IT's real, it's off an aircraft and I remember seeing the news article somewhere, when I find it I will post it in the message. {BANGHEAD}

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AlitaliaMD11 From Spain, joined Dec 2003, 4068 posts, RR: 15
Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17254 times:

Its real, there was story about ita while ago.

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TWAMD-80 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 1006 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17222 times:

I recall hearing the story about that awhile ago. If I remember correctly, there were a few rivets missing that allowed airflow to get under the cowling which subsequently ripped it off.

TW

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PeterA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 323 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17206 times:

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It's real and happened last year to an AirTran A320 just after take off. It returned safely to Atlanta. Can't remember the exact date.

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MIASkies From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 1335 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17201 times:

Wasn't that the Air Tran (leased from RyanAir) A320?

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BOS2LAF From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 354 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17193 times:

It was one of the A320's AirTran wet-leased... I remember seeing it in a thread sometime this past summer I believe.

Hr001 From Honduras, joined Nov 2004, 303 posts, RR: 3
Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17164 times:

the plane was a Ryan International A-320 Operating an Airtran flight.

Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15870 posts, RR: 66
Reply 10, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17169 times:

If I remember correctly, there were a few rivets missing that allowed airflow to get under the cowling which subsequently ripped it off.

Not quite. I can't see the pic but I will assume it's the Air Tran 320.

The original cowling latches for this engine type could easily be mistaken for locked when they were not. There were a couple of incidents of cowlings coming off around rotation since the cowling was not locked. A subsequent modification to the latch design ensures that if it is not locked it will not be flush with the cowling.

[Edited 2005-03-07 22:26:21]

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Jorge1812 From Germany, joined Apr 2004, 3141 posts, RR: 9
Reply 11, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 17126 times:

Definitely real. Was an AirTran A-320 (or an A-320 flying for AirTran). Just do a search in the forums here, was discussed more than one time I think.

SAS-A321 From Denmark, joined Mar 2002, 401 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 16996 times:

I think an Iberia A320 lost its engine cowl once. wideeyed

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BCNGRO From Andorra, joined Oct 2004, 584 posts, RR: 2
Reply 13, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 16901 times:

Yes, It happened last year.

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It must be scary to see the cowling fly off being up there worried

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Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15870 posts, RR: 66
Reply 14, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 16841 times:

It must be scary, but there is no big danger unless the cowling hits the empennage or something. It's just an aerodynamic fairing and has nothing to do with structure.

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ERJ145LR From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 431 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 16640 times:

Yeah, thats the Airtran A320, it was real, there was an earlier post about this.

FlyboyOz From Australia, joined Nov 2000, 1893 posts, RR: 28
Reply 16, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 16476 times:

Yeah, I saw lots of original photo of the engine explosion in the jetphotos.net discussion forum. An username's father or uncle took this photo when he was on his plane.

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Skaggs From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 144 posts, RR: 2
Reply 17, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 16468 times:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040719X01004&key=1

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OB1504 From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 2966 posts, RR: 8
Reply 18, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 16364 times:

Quoting FlyboyOz (reply 16):
Yeah, I saw lots of original photo of the engine explosion in the jetphotos.net discussion forum. An username's father or uncle took this photo when he was on his plane.

It wasn't an explosion. The cowling simply flew off after not being secured properly.

Luis777 From Mexico, joined Aug 2004, 89 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 16225 times:

Yes, it's real, and what's funny?

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Paulinbna From United States of America, joined Feb 2003, 1114 posts, RR: 5
Reply 20, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 12305 times:

It is safe until you are driving down the road and a engine cowling comes heading to you.

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Dl757Md From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1555 posts, RR: 18
Reply 21, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 11669 times:

Quoting CURLYHEADBOY (reply 0):
came across this picture (look to the bottom right of the page) of an engine missing the reverse cowling

It's actually the fan cowling not the reverser.

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Curlyheadboy From Italy, joined Feb 2005, 921 posts, RR: 2
Reply 22, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 11334 times:

Quoting Luis777 (reply 19):
Yes, it's real, and what's funny?

I said funny meaning "out of the ordinary", after all this is a minor incident that didn't put the safety of those onboard at risk. Didn't intend to call it laughable, just curious.

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CURLYHEADBOY From Italy, joined Feb 2005, 921 posts, RR: 2
Reply 23, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 11312 times:

Quoting Dl757Md (reply 21):
It's actually the fan cowling not the reverser.

You're absolutely right, i stand corrected.

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UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2225 posts, RR: 13
Reply 24, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 6476 times:

I dont have time to look right now but if you look under my username I started the topic on this when it happened. It was some time ago and like everyone else said on a Ryan Intl. Air A320 flying under AirTran.

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25 Tomys: I cannot imagine how I'd feel to see this happening right next of me

26 BWIA330: Hey, I remember this happening to an Skyservice A320 as well a few years ago. It made an emergency landing back in YYZ. Regards, BWIA330

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