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Weirdly, that page is listed as updated in 2019. Someone must have missed the SW one. The Southwest page does mention the 2018 incident and fatality, and was u
by geoelectric 7y ago
Weirdly, that page is listed as updated in 2019. Someone must have missed the SW one.
The Southwest page does mention the 2018 incident and fatality, and was updated the day of the incident in fact. However, the incident isn't "numbered" as a fatal event--instead it has a UL bullet instead of an OL number, which looks like a mistake.
On one hand, AFAIK the event wasn't SW's fault at all--they'd performed maintenance on the engine to standards. The fan blades failed due to a material fatigue issue, and happened to hit the engine cowl at its weakest spot and detached it.
But I thought Airsafe still would've counted that as related to the operation of the plane, though, and the FLE for that flight would be like 0.007 (1/143) and still round up to 0.01. Since only flights with a fatality at all count for their calculation that'd be an overall FLE of the same.
- mindcrime 7y agoYeah, I would think that it would still "count against" SW in that regard, even though it wasn't a "plane crash" or whatever.