Airbus had a "violent" engine-out, pilot asks passengers to "pray"

[BUTCH1]

AirAsia X flight D7237 was 1 hour into it's flight from Perth when a RR trent engine coughed a fan blade into the compressor with a loud bang. Pilot then over-fly's other airports and heads back to Perth (at reduced speed) with the plane now violently shaking due to the fan now being out of balance.Passengers were asked to "pray" by the pilot!, plane landed safely 2 hours later. This is the 3rd incident within a few months of a RR trent engine failing catastrophically, watch the vid and see how bad the shaking is!, (sorry if it's a repost, I DID LOOK!),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vegP4kdDEx8

 

[Ns1]

more proof that prayer works.

 

[KMFJD]

i think this is the engine...

 

[BUTCH1]

Yup, that's the one. Luckily the nacelle contained the event THIS time, but if I was on that plane I'd want it down STAT, and NOT fly with the violent shaking for 2 hours. of course all airliners are designed to fly with an engine-out situation but my question would be how the fu** can the pilot know the extent, (if any), of collateral damage. This happened to an A-380 and it was not contained causing all kinds of damage.

 

[BUTCH1]

more proof that prayer works.

Yet my prayers for a winning lotto ticket remain unfulfilled..

 

[Red Squirrel]

What the hell why do people use geoblocking on youtube, it's not even their own bandwidth, that's retarded. Any other source for the video?

 

[Pulsar]

All I have to say about this is that Aussie girls' accents are sexy as hell.

 

[BUTCH1]

What the hell why do people use geoblocking on youtube, it's not even their own bandwidth, that's retarded. Any other source for the video?

Yea, just search "AirAsia X flight D7237" on You-tube, dozens of uploads.

 

[Ns1]

Yet my prayers for a winning lotto ticket remain unfulfilled..

You are obviously not praying as hard as the winners. Pray harder.

 

[BUTCH1]

You are obviously not praying as hard as the winners. Pray harder.

Thanks!, the FL lotto is up to $25 mil, no winner in 1.5 months, I guess NONE of us been praying hard enough!.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yea, just search "AirAsia X flight D7237" on You-tube, dozens of uploads.

Yeah found one, I just assumed all of them would get taken down for copyright so never even thought of checking. Wow that's definitely going to loosen up everyone's bowels lol.

Wonder why they could not shut down that engine, I guess they lost controls to it, that could have been so much worse.

 

[tommo123]

What the hell why do people use geoblocking on youtube, it's not even their own bandwidth, that's retarded. Any other source for the video?

apparently if you change the "tube" in the url to "pak" it would play. works for me for UK vids that UK companies have blocked Brits from seeing

 

[JulesMaximus]

Prayer? Guy should be fired for saying that. You want a pilot to remain calm and professional, asking passengers to pray just makes people less confident in his abilities.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Prayer? Guy should be fired for saying that. You want a pilot to remain calm and professional, asking passengers to pray just makes people less confident in his abilities.

Won't disagree there. Fuck that retarded pilot, I would fire someone just for saying something that stupid in a serious predicament. It's as if during Apollo 13 and the flight director just says over the intercom's "Folks, let's just pray that everything here works out"

 

[madoka]

Probably just a Chinese lady throwing coins into the engine for luck.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/asia/china-coin-planes/index.html

Police took away an 80-year-old woman Tuesday after fellow passengers reported that she was throwing coins at the plane during boarding of China Southern Airlines flight CZ380 on the tarmac of Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.
"The passenger, surnamed Qiu, who has no prior criminal record or mental health issues, claimed she tossed coins as a prayer for a safe flight," Shanghai Police said in a statement.

 

[SKORPI0]

Am I to assume that the broken engine wasn't turned off thus causing the imbalance of the plane?

 

[SKORPI0]

Oops double post

 

[luv2liv]

i dont get it.
so god shook the plane in the first place. who else could/would? it's all in her master plan right?
praying is asking her to change her mind?

 

[Stopsignhank]

You don't want to hear your pilot say "Hopefully everything will turn out for the best". Tell me you have a plan on how you are going to get the plane down safely.

I am surprised he did not ask them to cross their fingers.

 

[elitejp]

Haha, i guess some people can be offended over anything

 

[freeskier93]

Yup, that's the one. Luckily the nacelle contained the event THIS time, but if I was on that plane I'd want it down STAT, and NOT fly with the violent shaking for 2 hours. of course all airliners are designed to fly with an engine-out situation but my question would be how the fu** can the pilot know the extent, (if any), of collateral damage. This happened to an A-380 and it was not contained causing all kinds of damage.

The nacelle is designed and tested to contain this type of thing, no luck about it. Certainly not impossible (as evident) but pretty unlikely.

Am I to assume that the broken engine wasn't turned off thus causing the imbalance of the plane?

The fan blades make for pretty good turbine blades too, which means the air flowing over them (because the aircraft is moving forword) will cause the engine to spin.

 

[MtnMan]

more proof that prayer works.

An international flight likely had people aboard that believed in many different gods. Which god was "the one" that saved them..... or was it the fact that the plane was engineered to remain in the air after an engine failure?

 

[elitejp]

Maybe God gave the engineer the brains to design a good engine. (Smiley face caption insert here )
Or we can all just be glad everyone arrived safe

 

[Drako]

Why didn't they just shut the left engine down? Or did they just want to shake the plane apart?

 

[JM Aggie08]

Homeboy shouldn't have lost his cool. I can only imagine to wave of panic that swept over the cabin upon hearing that. Dumbass.