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Plane makes emergency landing in Albuquerque
Meanwhile, my son had an interesting experience a couple days ago AFTER a flight from Cincinnati to Atlanta. He was piloting a 737 and landed in Atlanta in the wee hours. They were due to make a return trip, but as he was about to do his walk around, the mechanic approached him and said "come look at this". Apparently a something (I have since learned was a rear turbine blade) in the engine broke off and the engine now has to be replaced. He is certain it happened in flight because he'd done a thorough walk around before departure (and looked closely at the engines), but they had no indication of a problem until the mechanic spotted it on the ground in Atlanta. He was just grateful he didn't have a catastrophic failure like that recent Southwest plane.
Here's a picture he sent. The missing blade is at about the 8 O'clock position.
Meanwhile, my son had an interesting experience a couple days ago AFTER a flight from Cincinnati to Atlanta. He was piloting a 737 and landed in Atlanta in the wee hours. They were due to make a return trip, but as he was about to do his walk around, the mechanic approached him and said "come look at this". Apparently a something (I have since learned was a rear turbine blade) in the engine broke off and the engine now has to be replaced. He is certain it happened in flight because he'd done a thorough walk around before departure (and looked closely at the engines), but they had no indication of a problem until the mechanic spotted it on the ground in Atlanta. He was just grateful he didn't have a catastrophic failure like that recent Southwest plane.
Here's a picture he sent. The missing blade is at about the 8 O'clock position.
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