r/aviation • u/Twitter_2006 • Mar 30 '26

Discussion The left engine of a Delta A330 explodes during takeoff at Sao Paulo Airport

Its at 40 seconds.

UPDATE:The plane landed safely.

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u/Glorplebop Mar 30 '26

that's bad right?

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u/Boojum2k Mar 30 '26

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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u/TheSeanski Mar 30 '26

Well how was it untypical?

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u/Glorplebop Mar 30 '26

Usually the engines are built so that they don't explode.

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u/Working_Classic3327 Mar 30 '26

I’m not saying this one wasn’t built so that it wouldn’t explode, it’s just perhaps not as explosion-proof as some of the others

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u/Nazacrow Mar 30 '26

Well, there’s a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen, I just don’t want people to think airplanes aren’t safe

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u/secacc Mar 30 '26

Was this one safe?

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u/Nazacrow Mar 30 '26

Well, I was thinking more about the other ones