This fell off a B777-200 today over Denver. What is it?
Posted Feb 20, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC
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Video from inside the plane here https://twitter.com/michaelagiulia/status/1363241125495136267
edit: in case the tweet gets deleted https://streamable.com/gg9riz
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Now this is pod racing!
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That's just silly - the fire is supposed to be on the inside of the engine!
Side note: Even knowing everything I know about the survivability of something like this, I'd have struggled to crack a joke looking out that window.
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That is crazy
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Why would it get deleted?
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it got deleted privated.
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It was set to private, probably because they’ve realized they can sell it to news outlets (as the top replies suggest).
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idk how you can sell what's already been duplicated a hundred times.
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Welp
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If there’s one thing this sub has taught me, this was due to some kind of safety-wiring related issue.
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Another angle that clears it up quite a bit.
Engine cowling it seems.
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That’s the first thought I had haha. Well NTSB guy, I already mounted it on my wall so I think you better just take your pictures and get off my lawn.
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Idk what the feds call it but I call it finders keepers
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NTSB guy: “if you can get it through your front door, it is yours.”
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My garage door, obviously my wife would not let me put this in the living room. You must not have a family, traveling so much. You OK?
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"fuck off fedboi"
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It would make a sweet fire pit
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The exhaust cones make better firepits
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It already did, briefly.
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Aluminum burns bros!
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Not really, aluminum melts too easily.
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I'd frame that shit
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Maritime salvage law definitely applies here.
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OMG that makes the world of difference. From the first angle it looks like a straight piece of slat.
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“Hey NTSB, it’s my property. It’s mine now”
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I’m fairly certain that inlet cowl is more expensive than the entire home and property it landed on. Win win?
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Well, it was before it landed in the front yard.
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Looks like the GE90 engine inlet. Must had a explosive engine inlet anti-ice failure.
Do you know what time this occurred?
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It’s a PW4000 inlet lip. Not a GE90. You can tell from the fan blades and spinner cone in the video.
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Damn man. Some of you really know your shit. Props.
No pun intended lol.
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no props, no pun
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Looks like a PW4077
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It happened about an hour ago. UA328
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“Landed 5 hours 46 minutes early”
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Hey, username buddy... You seem to be the guy who has the right answer to this.
I'm an AMT, novice though, and never heard of an "explosive engine inlet anti-ice failure"... What does that comprise?
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It is likely just bleed as the anti-ice. Something likely happened internally to cause this kind of damage. Fan blade, compressor etc. At this point though its really anybodies guess
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That’s what I would guess but we’ll have to wait on the NTSB. Something could have been missed, maybe a compressor blade was damaged and broke.
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Also AMT here, pretty sure that the inlet was just collateral, it’s anti-ice if I’m not mistaken is just bleed air
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I don’t know the 777 inlets, but do they have a similar system to the 737’s with the bleed air being the main de-icer for the inlet lip skins?
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As far as I know. I believe it takes 5th stage bleed air
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AMT here 16 years in the industry. At first I thought the UA 777 had GE90’s because of this on the inletinlet
But it looks like this UA 777 is actually P&W powered.
As for the explosive inlet occurring from anti-ice failure: there was 2 777’s inlets that was in the back shop with a portion of the anti ice ring blown out like a burst pipe. One had to be scrapped due to BER. The other needed extensive sheet metal work.
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He’s just trying to use big words to impress the normies
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More fun images coming in for landing
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This is some Donnie Darko shit.
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i got to watch that plane land on the cameras
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United flight #328 doing DEN > HNL engine failure on #2.
https://www.facebook.com/AeronewsGlobal/photos/a.324280387648068/3727784230630983/?type=3
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It’s an airplane part!
You’re welcome!
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Now that's some home decor!
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That engine cowl appears to be made out of engine cowl.
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It came from this one: engine blew up
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Important
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Its a inletcowl lip skin
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As the 737MAX looks around nervously...
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Fell off? Or ripped off?
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It's the front of the engine cowl, so I guess you could say ^the ^^front ^^^fell ^^^^off
Video from in the cabin shows engine #2 consuming itself ferociously after this rapid unscheduled disassembly.
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No way!
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In the way.
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That is your engine inlet lip-skin
Or “the front” of the engine inlet
So the Catholic pilot says to the Jewish pilot, "Shit, we have an engine fire. I need you to cut #2"
I am Beowulf destroyer of jokes. I don’t get the joke
Ohhhhh like a foreskin?
Yes
I laughed way to hard at this comment
In other words... the front fell off.
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point...
In other news, Boeing and
GEP&W both independently deny that cardboard or cardboard derivatives were used in the construction of the engine cowl.This one was a Pratt and Whitney PW4077, ironically the same model of engine in a similar incident 3 years ago and related to the engine on the 747 in Europe earlier today.
United 777 in 2018: http://avherald.com/h?article=4b4e8ca7&opt=0
United 777 today: http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35503b&opt=0
Longtail 747 today: http://avherald.com/h?article=4e35302b&opt=0
Rubber?
But they will not comment on papier-mâché!
I got that refrance and I love it.alstrailians am j right
How is it not typical?
In the Air? Chance in a million.
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Cool fire ring potential for the backyard...
That is not your engine intlet lip skin, it's fucking straight. Looks like either leading edge of horizontal stabilizer or vertical stabilizer.NEVERMIND, IT'S ENGINE LIPSKIN. THERE ARE OTHER IMAGES I SAW AFTER THIS COMMENT
Let me guess, avionics guy?
Mechanic doing storage work on 777-200s that just had to apply corrosion preventative compound to the leading edges of the engines, wings, horizontal stabilizers, and vertical stabilizer on 4 planes. If it was the engine inlet lipskin it would be round not straight.NEVERMIND, IT'S ENGINE LIPSKIN. THERE ARE OTHER IMAGES I SAW AFTER THIS COMMENT.
Buddy... you gotta look at all the other pictures. It’s 100% the inlet lip skin.
Also: zoom in, because it’s round, not straight.
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