Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard ( www.thedailybeast.com )

A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff.

The Garuda Indonesia flight was bound for Medina, Saudi Arabia, which is the entry point for many Muslims making their pilgrimage to Mecca. It left from Indonesia’s international airport in Makassar, where clips showed one of the plane’s four engines becoming engulfed in flames during takeoff on Wednesday evening.

Videos of the engine fire were shared online by JACDEC, a plane crash data evaluation firm, which showed that the flames began just as the plane had lifted from the runway.

Hildegarde ,

This is another article that claimed a jet engine burst into flames, when all that happened was an engine surge. The engine didn't catch fire, the engine did the jet version of a backfire, and only once during the takeoff roll.

Asafum ,

But but but muh clicks! Muh ad revenue!! Who the hell cares about my affect on society!? I need muh clicks!

ripcord ,
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Parent comment was useful. Yours is just childish.

madcaesar ,

Thank you for reading the article and educating us. The thumbnail image looks like the plane is about to disintegrate!

HootinNHollerin ,

Here come more derpwads that don’t understand that airline maintenance is a thing and Boeing has nothing to do with this

mercano ,
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The last 747-400 passenger plane rolled off the production line in 2005. This is either going to be a maintenance issue or the engine ingesting debris or a bird, not faulty construction. Boeing doesn’t even make the engines, it’s either GE, Pratt & Whitney, or Rolls Royce, depending on the original owner’s preference.

StrawberryPigtails ,

Looks like the last passenger 747-400 was made in 2005. I think I'm willing to give Boeing a pass on this one. I get the feeling that Boeing personnel probably haven't been anywhere near this plane in at least five, maybe ten years.

Indonesian air travel has been notorious for incidents over recent decades. Each of the country’s airlines were banned over E.U. and U.S. airspace in 2007 but were reinstated in 2016 and 2018. Since then, Garuda has joined the SkyTeam airline alliance, which includes North American carriers Delta Air Lines and Aeroméxico.

cosmicrookie ,
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Their planes keep going down, but their stock keeps going up

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dc0abbb4-1fa3-4eb6-9550-790039bb8100.png

Oneser ,

Zoom out to the 5 year graph and it tells another story.

Also such events (which are non-catastrophic) are not entirely uncommon.

cosmicrookie ,
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To me, it seems like these events are way beyond common. A single accident (even catastrophic) would be acceptable. What is going on at Boeing, seems to be way beyond acceptable!

IWantToFuckSpez ,

“Keeps going up”

Yeah stop exaggerating. It’s down 30% since last December. It’s still trending downwards. And it’s 50% down since the highest price ever in 2019.

cosmicrookie ,
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My point is, that most other companies would have shut down after all these incidents instead of "still trending downwards"

Cosmicomical ,

Why do they still let them take off? They are basically a time bomb

stoy ,

I would refuse any flight on a new Boeing plane (post 2019), but the 747 is a very reliable plane, and I would have zero problems with flying one today even after this event.

This is not Boeing's fault.

Xeroxchasechase ,

Maybe all of the passengers are whistle blowers...

Jumi ,

Improper maintenance or birdstrike I'd assume

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