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It's rare that the funny response is actually more likely to be the accurate response. One possibility is that the fan shaft failed, and since the fan was no l
by timb07 9y ago
It's rare that the funny response is actually more likely to be the accurate response.
One possibility is that the fan shaft failed, and since the fan was no longer attached to the plane that it had been pulling through the sky, it went happily ahead by itself (perhaps still in one piece), taking the cowling with it.
- ajarmst 9y agoThat was my initial guess. It could also have been a contained failure that damaged the cowl, which later separated from aerodynamic stress. But the missing fan (and maybe a compressor stage) does seem to imply a shaft failure. The main question is whether that was the beginning of the event, or a later result from a different failure.