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crickets

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12. The plane landed safely and no one was hurt, thank goodness.

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Sat Jun 8, 2024, 02:27 PM

Jun 2024

Everyone on the plane was surely frightened out of their wits, but sitting in a seat over the wing must have been absolutely terrifying. Good on the pilot for getting back to the ground safely.

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From link, Revealed: 300 Boeing Planes have potentially explosive flaw republianmushroom Jun 2024 #1

Boeing has its problem but they don't make engines. paleotn Jun 2024 #2

sucks, literally IronLionZion Jun 2024 #3

Right, it just took a relatively small piece of metal Warpy Jun 2024 #8

How Jet Engines Work IronLionZion Jun 2024 #4

More for aviation deectives. usonian Jun 2024 #5

This is a plan that's been in service since 2008 Johnny2X2X Jun 2024 #6

Why doesn't it say "all emergency procedures and redundancy's both trained and engneered worked and no one was killed"? Cheezoholic Jun 2024 #7

There is tremendous pressure to keep the engines on the wing Fichefinder Jun 2024 #9

Looks like a compressor stall followed by surging EX500rider Jun 2024 #10

This is true SpankMe Jun 2024 #11

Agreed 100% orangecrush Jun 2024 #15

The plane landed safely and no one was hurt, thank goodness. crickets Jun 2024 #12

Sabotage? orangecrush Jun 2024 #13

Perhaps by the bean counters. Nt dflprincess Jun 2024 #14

More likely to be stupidity. Angleae Jun 2024 #16

This thread is weird. Angleae Jun 2024 #17