767 engine fire/damage at LAX

[desertfox]

Check out the slide show toward the bottom of the article.
Will be awhile before that one is back on line.
http://lafd.blogspot.com/

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

Check out the slide show toward the bottom of the article.
Will be awhile before that one is back on line.
http://lafd.blogspot.com/

From one of those photos, looks like the HP Turbine disentegrated almost completely. Lucky no one was hurt or killed.

 

[Garfield1966]

I can't help but wonder how this thread would have looked had it been a NWA aircraft instead of an AA one.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

I can't help but wonder how this thread would have looked had it been a NWA aircraft instead of an AA one.

If this had been a NWA aircraft, we would be reading about a NWA airliner crashing because NWA scabs didn't test a questionable engine on the ground and then pencil whipped the engine as ok for flight.

 

[Ken MacTiernan]

I can't help but wonder how this thread would have looked had it been a NWA aircraft instead of an AA one.

Okay, since you asked. Had this been a NWA a/c the SCABS running the aircraft would have probably burned with the aircraft. I would gather that the SCABS did not monitor the tower frequency and the FD would not have arrived in time. NWA would probably make a statement that siad everything was fine and that things like this happen all the time. Just like when main wheel assemblies fall off aircraft.

Or... maybe a run-up would not have been performed so an on-time departure could take place. Hey, who needs two engines when at least one isn't exploding? 😉

 

[Nor'Easta]

If this had been a NWA aircraft, we would be reading about a NWA airliner crashing because NWA scabs didn't test a questionable engine on the ground and then pencil whipped the engine as ok for flight.

PTO..."No engine trouble, don't worry about it." He would have deferred it. Dang SCABS!

 

[eolesen]

Might be better to just take the insurance money and run... especially if it is insured for more than its worth.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

Might be better to just take the insurance money and run... especially if it is insured for more than its worth.

They will probably sell it to NWA. PTO and Gangreen will fill the wing damage with JB WELD and call it serviceable.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

They will probably sell it to NWA. PTO and Gangreen will fill the wing damage with JB WELD and call it serviceable.

It will be lashed to a barge and floated to China for repairs.

 

[Garfield1966]

If the plane were repairable, how would we go about it? Does LAX have the facilities to conduct such a repair? I assume from the looks of it that it is not air worthy. If that is the case and LAX could not handle the repairs, how would the plane be transported to somewhere else? Do the wings come off? I thought I saw when they were building the #380 that the wing spar was one piece from wing tip to wing tip. How does an engine get transported …. Ground, cargo plane?

Thanks

 

[AMFAMAN]

Do the wings come off?
Thanks

Sure with a chain saw just like the DC-10 that got chopped up years back at DFW.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

How does an engine get transported …. Ground, cargo plane?

Thanks

By a big semi flatbed.

We need a structures mech input here, but I would be concerned about the heat damage to the wing skin. The skin is heat treated for strength, which could be compromised by the fire. The rest is sheet metal, honeycomb and fiberglass.

 

[700UW]

Sometimes on a flatbed sometimes on a cargo plane, at US we have used flatbeds, we have some of our own and we have used a C130 or 747 to ship engines when a plane is on the ground.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

Sometimes on a flatbed sometimes on a cargo plane, at US we have used flatbeds, we have some of our own and we have used a C130 or 747 to ship engines when a plane is on the ground.

Thanks for the memory jog. I do remember a Hercy Bird out here some time ago dropping one off.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

We need a structures mech input here, but I would be concerned about the heat damage to the wing skin. The skin is heat treated for strength, which could be compromised by the fire. The rest is sheet metal, honeycomb and fiberglass.

Another concern is Aerodynamics. How many "PTO" patches are allowed before it affects airflow under the wing? How will these "PTO" patches affect the stall and handling characteristics of the aircraft?