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As far as I'm aware no 777-200 mounted engine has ever exploded

• wewtyflakes 10mo ago
  From the article: https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-engine-failure/ https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-engine-fa...
  • tekla 10mo ago
    You know, this is why I hate it when techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog. The engine did not explode. It suffered an engine failure when the fan blades failed and separated but was a contained failure.
    • wewtyflakes 10mo ago
      "Shortly after takeoff, as the aircraft approached 13,000 feet, the right engine suffered an explosion." :shrug:
      • tekla 10mo ago
        > techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog
        • wewtyflakes 10mo ago
          I cited sources; you are trying to redefine the word "explode" to not mean explode. Regardless, litigating about the word "explode" is the least interesting part of what happened to this plane; at at the end of day, nobody wants to fly on a plane that has its engine exp... err, suffer catastrophic failure that is totally not an explosion.