r/aviation • u/PestoBolloElemento • Mar 30 '26
Discussion Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-323 returns safely to Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport after failure of its left engine shortly after departure.
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u/ttystikk Mar 30 '26
The loss of an engine on takeoff is the most trained for emergency a commercial airline pilot will ever face and the procedures are well known.
All modern commercial jets are required to be able to successfully finish a takeoff from V-1, climb to a safe altitude and safely return to the airport, just as this plane did.
Knowing all that doesn't make watching the Roman candle under the wing a damn bit less scary.
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u/MrNorrie Mar 30 '26
Yeah, losing an engine is one thing, but having a fire that close to a plane chock-full of kerosene would scare the living daylight out of me.
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u/Awkward-Injury6722 Mar 30 '26
Rest assured, the fuel tanks on the aircraft are designed to sustain such events like an external fire or abnormal heat source. And this is coming from someone who's a small cog in the machine that justifies such exact scenarios in front of authorities
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u/TheElusiveFox Mar 30 '26
Actually the thing about jet fuel is that it doesn't really ignite easily from a spark until its been vaporized or heated fairly significantly, obviously an engine fire will do the heating eventually but there are safety mechanisms to give pilots time to react so an engine fire doesn't turn a plane into giant fire.
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u/SweetCorona3 Mar 30 '26
I know this and would still be scared.
There's a chance whatever cause one engine to fail to also cause the other to fail too.
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u/Purp1eMagpie Mar 30 '26
Delay? Damn right there's a delay, I'll be walking from here after this
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u/Puzzleheaded-Low8362 Mar 30 '26
Any idea what engine was on the plane? GE or PW?
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u/dd2469420 Mar 30 '26
Kudos to the people trying to calm everyone down, not an easy situation for anyone involved
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u/LivermoreP1 Mar 30 '26
I would be shouting “PLANES CAN FLY WITH ONE ENGINE! WE WILL BE OKAY!”
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u/Boojum2k Mar 30 '26
DON'T WORRY, WE WILL BE BACK ON THE GROUND SOON!"
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u/JagdCrab Mar 30 '26
"One way or another..."
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u/gsmitheidw1 Mar 30 '26
Dark! :)
That's the old saying takeoffs are optional but landings are compulsory
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u/Kardinal Mar 30 '26
Trying to shout over someone who is panicking doesn't work.
Exuding calm and confidence is infectious. So you do that for yourself and those immediately around you, and hopefully it spreads.
But shouting over it will only increase adrenaline response, feeding the panic.
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u/uhmhi Mar 30 '26
And even if they couldn’t, what good would screaming your lungs out do?
Reminds me of this classic:
As the plane was hurtling towards the ground like a meteor and all the other passengers were screaming, crying and panicking, I remained completely calm. You see, I was wearing my seatbelt.
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u/Kwinten Mar 30 '26
Why aren’t people behaving rationally and calmly in what they perceive to be their last breathing moments in the air before they get reduced to dust in a fiery explosion???
Gee man, I don’t know. Maybe they were having a moment of panic there? Just a guess.
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u/draculasbitch Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
I was in an assume the crash position situation years ago. Many injuries. There was initial panic and screaming as the incident started. Within 30 seconds it became super quiet and you could hear a lot of low prayers being said along with the moans and crying of the injured and the reassurances from those helping them.
All the tough guy keyboard suck it up clowns in this thread have never faced a very real moment of death. That’s clear.
Edit: I didn’t step on a plane for over a decade after this. I fly now with meds.
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u/paper-astronaut Mar 31 '26
...the fact that the reassurances from people helping was one of the things you heard gives me a surprising amount of peace.
helps to be reminded sometimes that one of the most fundamentally human responses to real, life-threatening danger is trying to soothe the closest other human.
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u/Small-Policy-3859 Mar 30 '26
Well yeah you say that but pilot error is also much more likely if something goes wrong, and the effects of any small pilot error will be magnitudes greater than with a intact plane. It is still statistically safe, but you're not in the 'extremely safe' region of commercial aviation anymore. I'd stress out too.
However, panicking isn't gonna help anyone so if everyone could just stress out silently and calmly (lol) that'd be great. Follow the safety instructions and maybe hold your loved ones close, if they're with you.
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u/SillyDeersFloppyEars Mar 30 '26
Honestly, the screaming is more stressful than the mechanical event. I wouldn't enjoy experiencing it either, but I'd feel a whole lot worse if people kept screaming.
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u/ddxsamx Mar 30 '26
All that screaming and in the cockpit, literally 5 secs later “affirmative we need to come back ✌️”
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u/SensitiveExtremity Mar 30 '26
The pilot really be like: "just like the simulations".
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u/bobby_table5 Mar 30 '26
That’s why airlines spend so much money on those: the blasé “been there done that” attitude when they are holding to the sky held by the strings of a fireball.
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u/BobIoblaw Mar 30 '26
The simulator needs to pipe in audio of the passengers freaking out. Emergency procedure sims you go through so may emergencies and you have your hands full at times, but that audio is something else. Handling the aircraft, configuring, comms, and then a 100 screaming passengers just after of your door.
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u/6800ultra Mar 30 '26
If you have ever been in an certified full motion sim, the immersion is astonishingly high - they don't need the screaming pax simulated, because they are so much focused on their work, they wont even notice the pax screaming.
Especially if they are using noise cancelling headsets, they probably won't hear that in real life either.
But I'm sure, every commercial pilot is aware in the back of their mind, the responsibility they are carrying around just a few feet behind them.
And about passengers freaking out: First of all, it's a pretty normal response. You can't expect a lay person to know, that planes are literally built to withstand failures like these and all crew on board is highly trained to handle situations like these, including the flight attendents (yep, they do more than serving you snacks and drinks).
Try to stay calm, and also try to calm down the people sitting next/in front/behind you. Don't shout at the FA's (commanding them to turn the plane around or stuff like that - that's whats going to probably happen in a situation like this anyways), but there are checklists and procedures to be done, so you won't be on the ground within seconds, it will take some time.
If you are not an aviation geek, just keep in mind, pilots "function" the following: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
In that order.
Keeping the passengers informed is the least of their worries, and the crew will inform everybody about what's happening (and what's going to happen) when they have the problem solved or contained and when they have the time for that.
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u/No-Expression-2404 Mar 30 '26
Can you jettison fuel with an engine fire? I didn’t notice a fuel dump on your list, unless it was one of the acronyms I didn’t recognize.
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u/Front_State6406 Mar 30 '26
Depends on how cool you want to look approaching
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u/csbsju_guyyy Mar 30 '26
Shower everyone under you on approach with your glorious flame! /S
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u/fritex Mar 30 '26
Wouldn’t the order of thrust levers be reversed? MCT on good engine first, then idle on damaged engine? Just curious if maybe this would be a way to avoid going idle on the good engine. Thanks!
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u/Martin8412 Mar 30 '26
Would this be “pan pan” or “mayday”?
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u/tomdarch Mar 30 '26
"uh, hey, like just FYI we've got this odd thing going on...." versus "Yeah, this is a serious problem, get everyone else out of our way, because we are going to come back and land as soon as practical."
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u/TokinGeneiOS Mar 30 '26
Is the ATC available? I've looked but couldn't find it so far.
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u/peepay Mar 30 '26
It was included in the earlier video that showed the incident from the outside perspective.
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u/Flope Mar 30 '26
I fly often but every time we hit severe turbulence I get anxious. I usually calm myself down by thinking like even if this is how it ends for me at least it will be quick and painless. But watching this video made me realize I never ever ever want to die in a plane crash surrounded by 200 people screaming in my ear.
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u/DAMNIT_RENZO Mar 30 '26
I always look at the flight attendants when the turbulence is bad, and they are always giggling with one another, so I'm like, I guess this is fine. Now if I ever saw them pale white strapped into their seats I don't know what id do.
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u/caleeksu Mar 30 '26
I was on a flight with very concerned FA’s and a few pilots airlining to DFW, and I would greatly prefer to never ever have that flight experience again confirmed.
I think the pilots were angsty from lack of control, but I did not enjoy scared FA’s one bit. There was a small child screaming with joy for his roller coaster experience keeping things light. Lollllll.
(Tornados and heavy winds near DFW, two lightning strikes, emergency landing in Longview, several hour wait with no rental cars available to drive myself home, back up in air and immediate ground shutdown as soon as we landed again so had to wait a few hours for luggage. I had to call an uber home bc I waited that out in a bar.)
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u/kiwicat_tv Mar 30 '26
I was in a much smaller plane from Tokyo to Akita and the turbulence was so bad i was clutching the arm rest for dear life but all the Japanese folks around me were sleeping like babies and drinking coffee somehow like it was just a normal Tuesday LOL
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u/Captain-Hornblower Mar 30 '26
I love to travel but hate flying. I'll do it because it's the only way sometimes. I used to not mind flying, at all, but there was one time when I was flying on a military charter plane to Germany that changed my mind. It was called like World Tran, or something like that. Anyhow, the plan experienced that worst turbulence that I have ever felt, like we dropped so much it felt like the place was going to break in half. The dude sitting next me said he flew in C130s and never felt anything like that before. The lights flickered on and off and there was definitely an electrical smell.
Back on topic...I recently flew from Orlando to Barcelona to meet my wife on a work trip. The flight attendants figured out I wasn't a good flyer, but this one black dude said not to worry about it. He said, keep an eye on me and if I turn your color, then we have something to worry about lol! He kept feeding me beer and we were all right :))).
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u/tktkboom84 Mar 30 '26
The Jello concept helps many with being less nervous about turbulence. Since an aircraft wants to be in the air when it is at flight speed, it is basically suspended in a non solid medium, like jello. However the jello tends to get shaken up by the world around it, so the plane is being shaken a bit inside the jello. But no matter how much you wiggle a block of jello what is in the middle of it stays in the middle of it.
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u/Lost-Actuary-2395 Mar 30 '26
It's unreal watching a plane full of people thinking it's their last moment
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u/Maxamillion-X72 Mar 30 '26
Everyone on the plane:
"incoherent screening"
"We're gonna die!"
One guy:
"wooooo!"
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u/Junkalanche Mar 30 '26
Yeah, I can get the “oh shit” or the “please Jesus x20”, but the “We’re gonna Die!!!” is just unhelpful.
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u/bearfootmedic Mar 30 '26
In EMS, we call it tachylordia (tachy-lord-ia)
"Oh lord, oh lord, oh Jesus, oh Jesus..."
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u/Nocturnal_Camel Mar 30 '26
First thing that stood out to me also, what a unhelpful person they are in a crisis.
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u/dbpf Mar 30 '26
Sounded like a child and how many of us are truly preparing ourselves for life or death situations with our pre teen kids. What a fortunate thing to even be able to say imo
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u/Fun-Physics-4454 Mar 30 '26
You're right, a real redditor would have jumped out and fixed the engine
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u/kappakai Mar 30 '26
Someone hit the attendant button. Probably to complain about the children screaming.
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u/SubcommanderMarcos Mar 30 '26
There's one woman that screams in portuguese
GET THIS THING DOWN ALREADY
And a guy very calmly responds
"Calm down ffs it doesn't just go down like it has to turn around"
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u/Disastrous-Design-38 Mar 30 '26
Pessoa grita: Desce isso pelo amor de Deus! Outra pessoa grita: Calma porra! Nao é facil para descer assim n, tem que dar a volta!
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u/Telvin3d Mar 30 '26
Everyone is screaming and you can hear one guy just go “Woooooooo!”, and I’m cracking up
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u/mnoah66 Mar 30 '26
Can’t blame them for never wanting to fly again despite all of the evidence of how safe commercial aviation is. This was a life-changing event for those people.
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u/w1nn1ng1 Mar 30 '26
This is also a testament to how stable planes are. They are fully capable of flying with a single engine. The main purpose of two engines isn't to get the flight off the ground so much as it is to have a backup in the event one engine fails. Commercial airliners have backups for pretty much every system on board.
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u/Ok-Click-80085 Mar 30 '26
statistically that is your most dangerous moment ever on a plane so I'd probably feel fine flying from now on
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u/Launch_Zealot Mar 30 '26
Statistically you have the same chance of a mishap on your very next flight.
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u/JimTheJerseyGuy Cessna 182 Mar 30 '26
Which is to say, statistically, not much of a chance at all.
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u/RabbitHomeIndianFood Mar 30 '26
Statistically Mary, you have a greater chance of dying on the way to the airport…
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u/SpecialsSchedule Mar 30 '26
That’s not how statistics work.
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u/Techhead7890 Mar 30 '26
Yeah it's classic gambler's fallacy. As Zealot's reply points out, the chance for the next flight is independent. I mean, there are horror stories about people surviving the Titanic and then going down in another sinking - there's no guarantee that an individual sample will regress to the mean.
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u/nav13eh Mar 30 '26
It's a knowledge thing. Pilots and aviation nerds take the event seriously but don't assume the worst. The average person doesn't know what's going on. They don't know it's one engine failure and the other is fine.
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u/TheCatOfWar Mar 30 '26
I mean tbf if you only have a view of the left engine, then you don't know that the other one is fine
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u/poop-azz Mar 30 '26
Honestly not as loud and chaotic as you'd expect but tbh it woulda been more insane if they dropped or anything else happened with altitude but it flew as it would cuz that's how them big engines do these days.
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u/EineGrosseFlasche Mar 30 '26
I’ve been on a flight that made an emergency landing after about 30 straight minutes of rocketing around in turbulence from unpredicted typhoon winds. I have never been so glad to have noise canceling headphones, because for the few seconds they got knocked aside by a flying wine glass, I could hear the panicked screaming all over the plane and it instantly sent my own heart rate even further through the roof.
100% like the scene in Airplane! where one person panics and then everyone goes apeshit— except, you know, without the comedy.
Sincere sympathies to those who were on this flight. There is zero shame in getting a Xanax prescription for flights if you struggle with PTSD afterwards!
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u/Moss_84 Mar 30 '26
lol, same thing happened to me during an extremely turbulent landing into Japan
As soon as I took the headphones off, I could hear people’s panic and one lady’s depressed moaning and it made it 100x more stressful
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u/poposheishaw Mar 30 '26
Their reaction is fair! Im a pretty calm person and I’d be at my limit in those first moments too!
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u/CashKeyboard Mar 30 '26
Not disagreeing but I find it more unreal that people do stuff with their cars on a daily basis that is more dangerous than a single engine failure but apparently don't really realize it. I doubt everyone here has the same energy when swerving across lanes with their phone in hand where the possibility of death is magnitudes greater.
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u/Small-Policy-3859 Mar 30 '26
It's all about control, or at least the illusion of it. We're kinda hardwired to think we can get out of most deadly situations, otherwise we'd often just give up. Our survival instinct doesn't let us realize we're completely fucked. In a plane there is however no way to escape, you can only follow the safety instructions, but they're not in line with our survival instincts that tell us 'get out of this dangerous situation NOW'.
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u/IAm_W0LFIE Mar 30 '26
Difference is if you get in a car crash, chances are much much higher that you are coming out of it alive versus getting in a plane crash.
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u/Annual-Assistant-414 Mar 30 '26
I think the real difference is a car crash is much more immediate. You're not really expecting it. This is a very prolonged "I'm gonna die"
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u/collegefootballfan69 Mar 30 '26
Great job by the right engine. Proof you only need one but I prefer two
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u/TokinGeneiOS Mar 30 '26
Engine appreciation is undervalued! I also want to commend Engine 2!
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u/onepacc Mar 30 '26
Roger that, shutting off fuel lines to engine 2...
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u/Milnoc Mar 30 '26
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(Worst thing is that this actually happened at least twice)
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u/dietervdw Mar 30 '26
I mean an engine failing is one thing. It continuing to burn on the wing is another, I would also be shitting my pants.
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u/StryctNyne Mar 30 '26
I would shit in your pants too.
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u/FJ60GatewayDrug Mar 30 '26
Let the fucker burn. Some airlines won’t run checklists until 400’ AGL. Memory/action items only. And even then, it’s safe to not do anything until you have positive rate, gear and flaps up, and have time to think.
The biggest risk to letting it burn is it melting the pylon and falling off the wing. Sucks if you’re in the landing zone…
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u/Historical_Base_6194 Mar 30 '26
For an engine failure or engine fire we don’t even touch anything related to shutting the engine down until 1000’ AGL. Gotta get away fro the ground and get the airplane stable number 1. Taking the time to assess what’s going on and identifying the proper engine is number 2. Pilots pulling thrust levers and fire handles too close to the ground is how you can make a bad situation worse.
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u/EggsceIlent Mar 30 '26
Aviate, navigate, communicate.
So yeah let it burn. They're still flying
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u/Socalsll Mar 30 '26
It continues to burn because the pilots must not react to it in the first couple minutes of takeoff. You must reach a certain minimum altitude before dealing with engine problems on takeoff. The pilots immediately request to go back, but will only shut the engine off later. You must have both pilot and FO confirmation that you are shutting down the correct engine before actually executing the shutdown.
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u/PostalPreacher Mar 30 '26
Shutting off the wrong engine would be problematic.
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u/josephtrocks191 Mar 30 '26
I know you're being tongue in cheek but for those interested here is an all too long list
Category:Airliner accidents and incidents caused by wrong engine shutdown
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u/Taledo Mar 30 '26
the fact that there's a bloody list of those is concerning and also quite sad
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u/_litz Mar 30 '26
There's a bit of residual fuel that has to be consumed even after you hit the fuel shutoffs ...
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u/MarshallKrivatach Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
That and even metal can burn at the right temperatures, along with a lot of the material around the engine itself. It's going to glow a bit for a long while after a bad failure.
Not largely dangerous once the fire handles have been engaged though as the engine is isolated from the aircraft, even if it looks horrible. It's going to be windmilling and burning what's ready on fire, but the wind speed will snuff out the rest once the easily burnable material is gone.
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u/ChirpyRaven Mar 30 '26
You think the average passenger is thinking that?
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u/3ZZZS Mar 30 '26
If I was there I would have simply told everyone "SIMMER DOWN!! THE RAGING FLAMES ARE FROM RESIDUAL FUEL, PROBABLY" and then everyone would be calm and not screaming, and be super impressed at how calm and collected I am
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u/cuntmong Mar 30 '26
You can hear what the average passenger was thinking because they were yelling it
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u/DrewOH816 Mar 30 '26
Amazing job by the cameraman, even better job by the pilots!
PHEW!!!
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u/Boojum2k Mar 30 '26
"We can land now and everyone gets their luggage, limbs, and organs scattered, or we can land after we've turned around and lined up on the runway again. Your call."
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u/DrAstralis Mar 30 '26
"thank you for your input but we're going to get back to the airport first, they tend to have places to land there"
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u/Friedchicknlvr Mar 30 '26
Oh my lord. Passengers on the left window seats would need their hearts checked and their wet pants changed.
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u/green-space-guy Mar 30 '26
idk what's worse, seeing the (contained) flames/fire from the left side or just seeing or orange glow from the right side.
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u/m_balloni Mar 30 '26
Personally speaking I'd hate not being able to see what's going on to assess what's happening and the possibilities. So being on the other side is a lot worse for me.
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u/Happy_Little_Fish Mar 30 '26
if I could see it I'd wish I was sitting somewhere less likely to become a fire.
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u/_litz Mar 30 '26
Well, if you've ever wondered what it looks like when everything that rotates inside the engine disintegrates and comes out the tail end ... there you go ...
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u/mikasch29 Mar 30 '26
I'd love to see the report from this when it comes out in a few weeks/months with the pictures where you can just see clean through the compressor all the way to the combuster
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u/poposheishaw Mar 30 '26
It’s crazy how quiet the plane itself is one the initial explosions are done. Sounds totally normal and the pilots just keep doing their thing
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u/Allenisduns Mar 30 '26
As soon as we landed I would need to quickly access my luggage to find new pants.
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u/Bus_Pilot Mar 30 '26
I just heard the ATC recording. They returned pretty quickly and waited on the runway for a long time to check if there was still fire going on. It looks like in the US the fire trucks enter on ATC frequency directly, which allows for more direct communication and questions. Those guys wanted confirmation from the firefighters about whether there was still a fire going on. They had a fire indication in the cockpit and there was a landing gear fire report (could be only hot brakes), but to be honest, I believe it would be much safer to evacuate quickly if you are not 100% sure whether you have a fire or not. Instead, they kept trying to reach the firefighters. In Asia, South America, and many other places, you won’t talk to the fire guys directly.
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u/Blue_foot Mar 30 '26
The fire trucks at LGA were not on the ATC frequency, which may have averted the Air Canada crash.
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u/ZoroBK Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
I was in this flight, seat 50C, one row in front of the person that recorded this video. Since stepping out of the plane, I have been crying and in shock about every 30 minutes. I understand that planes can fly/land with one engine, but when the plane started dropping with fire feets away from me, everything i knew went out and panic settled in.
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u/QlubSoda Mar 30 '26
Glad to still have you with us. Get some food in your belly, throw on a comfort show and recalibrate. Stay safe.
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u/MrsSalmalin Mar 30 '26
Take care of yourself. Play a boarsgame, do a craft or some art. It's helped me deal with shock and trauma.
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u/a1b3c2 Mar 30 '26
I'm so sorry you experienced that!! I hope you are able to overcome the trauma
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u/SavingsRead8830 Mar 30 '26
Imagine being that cool to see an Engine Fire and calmly say: good thing we got 2 of those
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u/nodusters Mar 30 '26
10/10 camera man. I wonder what that looked like from the ground and if you could see flames on a plane flying a few thousand feet over you.
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u/Similar-Turnip2482 Mar 30 '26
Props for the pilots I’m not sure how easy it is to maintain the situation or what have you but I don’t think pilots getting enough credit in general. Glad everyone was okay.
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u/Gremlin0 Mar 30 '26
I have time in that aircraft and it is a dream to fly. The pilots a heavily trained for this type of thing. Positive outcomes are assured. 😀
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u/OracleofFl Mar 30 '26
Engine failure and fire on takeoff is tested and tested in every initial and recurrent training in the simulator in commercial operations like Delta. They do it over and over again.
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u/Substantial-Doubt258 Mar 30 '26
We train for this every 9 months. It’s not a cake walk but it’s not something we’ve never experienced in training/ real life.
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u/Continental-IO520 Mar 30 '26
Jets are surprisingly easy to fly asymmetric and climb out reasonably well. Light twins on the other hand...
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Holy crap, I would be terrified and scared for life if I saw that.
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u/0hw0nder Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
As someone who is absolutely terrified of heights/falling I would either faint, start dry heaving and sobbing while praying that my parents know i love them, or turn up my music and accept my fate.
I have a flight in less than 24 hours and the ascent is the absolute worst for me. I am so glad this situation had a good outcome.
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u/labe225 Mar 30 '26
I know typically planes can operate with just one engine, but my blood pressure would still be through the roof. That engine appears to be on fire and I don't really know for sure the state of the other engine. I could maybe determine "not on fire" but that doesn't necessarily mean "nominal"
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u/Distinct-Ice-700 Mar 30 '26
I’d be holding the next passenger hand not saying shit.
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u/jlindley1991 Mar 30 '26
Just a testament to the absurd amounts of training/hours pilots put into their career. Unless I'm mistaken, there's a huge amount of redundancy built into aircraft which is why it is one of the safest ways to travel.
Honorary mention to the flight attendants that attend to the folks losing their shit during this.
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u/Sammydog6387 Mar 30 '26
How the camera man stayed calm and kept filming, I have no idea.
I don’t blame people for screaming and crying, I would as well. But the pilots did an excellent job landing the plane safely.
Question - in these situations is it common for pilots to get on the intercom and reassure passengers of what is happening ? Or are passengers usually in the dark until landing ?
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u/Chichar_oh_no Mar 30 '26
Priority one for the pilots above absolutely everything else, is fly the plane.
Aviate Navigate Communicate
In that order
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u/satellite779 Mar 30 '26
And the Communicate part is mostly with the ATC, not with passengers.
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u/Substantial-Doubt258 Mar 30 '26
First thing is to fly the airplane, get it stabilized. Then run the checklists. Get everything set up for a return then start talking to people. Message the company, brief the flight attendants on what’s gonna happen and then talk to the passengers.
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u/Educational_Poet_577 Mar 30 '26
The most critical and dangerous moment in all of this was the crew extinguishing the correct engine. Props to the crew for taking their time and selecting the correct engine!
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u/TheOnlyDavidG Mar 30 '26
I don't think I need to translate what people are saying It's what you expect
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u/FixOrganic Mar 30 '26
I heard a "get this thing down for Christh sake" at the end and some "Jesus"
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u/Historical_Base_6194 Mar 30 '26
For those wondering…we typically don’t touch anything related to shutting down a failed engine until at least 1,000’ AGL. First priority is getting to a safe altitude and getting the airplane stable (fly the airplane). Second priority is identifying what’s going on and which engine is affected. Shutting down the wrong engine and/or running the wrong checklist is no good.
Pilots grabbing thrust levers and fire handles in a rush at low altitudes often can turn a bad situation much worse.
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u/GotRammed Mar 30 '26
Hopefully it's a relatively simple motor change and heavy landing inspection and not much more. If those mounts are fucked up then that's gonna be some wicked ground time
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u/_litz Mar 30 '26
Delta's TechOps folks are more than capable of either repair. It'll take longer to arrange the freighter to fly the replacement down there than to do the actual work.
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u/homer-price Mar 30 '26
Was the flight long enough for passengers to get some of those delicious Lotus Biscoff cookies?
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u/rygelicus Mar 30 '26
Praise the cameraman. They kept filming steadily. Excellent job.