SW Airlines catastrophic in-flight engine failure

LTC8K6 said:
https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/986328239424528385

Calm pilot or co-pilot.
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Segregation of duties. Pilots responsibility to deal with the engine failure, notification of the incident, descent to a safe altitude because of the depressurization, safe divert and landing.

Cabin crew (once safe to move) to deal with immediate checks of the passengers to ensure all on O2, then prioritise treatment of incident. It may even mean that they deal with general passenger panic over initial treatment of an individual passenger injury (a confused situation may obscure other issues that need priority). When finally it's calm enough they can deal with passenger injuries , liaise with the cockpit crew and plan for the landing and transfer to the emergency services.

Amazing how many think of them as food and drink servers...
 
RecoveringYuppy said:
Would the failure necessarily happen immediately after the strike?
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Not necessarily, but most likely. A delayed failure at cruise, where there was reduced stress, would seem less likely. It would also require that the crew did not notice the strike at the time. Still possible though. Kind in mind that this is speculation (albeit informed speculation, a SWAG, rather than a WAG) at this point. I look forward to the NTSB/FAA investigation results.
 
Pope130 said:
I've seen a better pic now. I agree, there doesn't appear to be any metal damage around the lost window. Also, it's well aft of where a thrown blade would have hit. I'd speculate that it could have been hit by part of the engine casing or cowing that was separated.

There is what looks like a blade impact on the fuselage at the second down stroke of the "h" in "Southwest".
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That picture is from an August 2016 Southwest Engine Failure. I was going insane trying to match that picture to the plane.

See the original photos from the 2016 failure here:

https://twitter.com/search?q=@smillerdd3&src=typd
 
Bird strikes have happened at extreme altitudes. Hmmm, wikik....
 
William Parcher said:
I was expected to see fuselage damage around the window like it was blasted with debris. I don't see anything. Just a missing window.
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I've seen things that look vaguely like scrapes or scratches; but they were on low-resolution images and it's hard to tell. There have been no high-definition closeup photographs of the window from the outside that I've seen.
 
Given the fuselage damage appears to be well aft, that certainly lessens the potential for uncontained failure being the cause.

As for pressure pulling someone out of the plane, a pilot once barely survived a windshield failure and was barely held in the plane by his ankles.

This is where the tapatalk signature that annoys people used to be
 
It was the woman sucked into the window who died...

CNN: Passengers aboard a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday struggled to pull a woman back into the plane after she was sucked into a hole left by a shattered window, witnesses said. The woman died, officials said. The woman was sitting on the left side of the plane when something in the engine apparently broke and smacked into the window. She hung out the hole for many minutes, said Amy Serafini and Hollie MacKay, who were in the seats behind the victim. Many passengers kept trying to pull the woman back into the plane for a long time, until two men were able to get the woman back in her seat, they said. A nurse answered a call for help and tried to do CPR.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
Given the fuselage damage appears to be well aft, that certainly lessens the potential for uncontained failure being the cause.

As for pressure pulling someone out of the plane, a pilot once barely survived a windshield failure and was barely held in the plane by his ankles.

This is where the tapatalk signature that annoys people used to be
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British Airways if I remember right.

Wrong size bolts used to replace a cockpit window. Pilot sucked out and crew member held on to his legs until they could land. Pilot survived.
 
Jesus. Did they say if she'd been wearing her seat belt? I always pick the window seat. Well, until now anyway.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
British Airways if I remember right.

Wrong size bolts used to replace a cockpit window. Pilot sucked out and crew member held on to his legs until they could land. Pilot survived.
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And went back to work after rehab. That incident occurred at about half the altitude of this one.
 
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