Southwest plane’s engine cover peels off during takeoff
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- A Southwest flight was forced to make an emergency landing after part of the engine cover appeared to peel off as the aircraft headed down the runway for takeoff. While the plane was manufactured by Boeing, the engine was not. NBC’s Sam Brock reports for TODAY.
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If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going
@@jacla666 I respect that as a consumer, you have the right to choose your flights based on equipment used. For argument sake and playing devil's advocate here, but the A320 uses one of two engines: ones built by IAE and ones built by CFM.
Both are joint ventures with some percentage of US ownership and headquarters in the United States. Given the bulk of the airline industry flies variants of either of the 737 or the A320, would you still take your flight knowing the engines are produced by either manufacturer?
More specifically, let's say all the airlines serving the route between your origin and your destination use an A320 variant, and you had to get to your destination for something important and ground based transportation of any kind would be inefficient, would you still board any of the available flights?
Yeah ill stick to flying on Airbus A320s recently switched from southwest to frontier cause of the planes
wait till you undnerstand its the service teams issue and not boeing, that engine cover has been opened atleast 400 times since the aircraft was created
You can say that because of Boeing.
The company t-shirt was "Unless it's Boeing. I ain't going." I suggested that change long ago...
In other news, airlines have changed their boarding policies. Now people are allowed, even encouraged, to carry aboard drills, screwdrivers, wrenches, nuts & bolts, etc. to do emergency repairs and tightening up and repair of equipment, doors, wheels, and panels.
Now, movies will say, "Is there a mechanic on board?", instead of a doctor... ;-P
why not check if the plane works before flying?
@@thepotatoofheaventoo expensive
You forgot to mention duct tape and farmers bailing twine .
@@vicpetrishak7705 and turtle wax to buff anything out.
I tried to return my Boeing jet due to concerns about safety issues plus I just didn't like the color of it. But they tried to tell me they wouldnt grant a refund because I didn't have my receipt even though it was purchased only 3 weeks earlier and the salesperson even remembered my name and the day I came in. I was so furious until my mom came in and woke me up for school.
I took mine back and went w a 98 Corolla instead
The cowling is manufactured by Boeing, not the engine maker.
This has nothing to do with Boeing or the engine manufacturer. This was Southwest maintenance and the pilot doing the preflight inspection
@@cloudstreets1396 Yup. This is most likely a maintenance issue. But the root cause is the same: lack of federal oversight. This is what happens when you make government smaller and allow industry to regulate itself.
@@cloudstreets1396 I'm a pilot and there is no way that the pilot would be able to see any issues with the cowling during the preflight inspection. The purpose of the preflight inspection is to see if there is anything obviously wrong with the aircraft. The pilots cannot check every single rivet before every flight
@@waholoopesorry74 as part of my walk around on the Airbus we specifically look for loose fasteners on the cowls. We actually bend down and look underneath the nacelle. That’s all it takes. You can see if fasteners are unlatched. You can see it on a 737 also. It’s not looking at every rivet. This want a failure of rivets. MX left the cowl unsecure and the pilot missed it
No, ithe cowlings are not made by Boeing.
My explanation is that maintenance did not latch the covers back on after doing some checks which caused the cover to open upward once it took off
Probably
Truly a beerworthy assessment, here, have a cold one 🍺
Pilots are responsible also, they clearly didn’t do a thorough walk around!
Omg how can u write something like this? Since when this is pilots job? @NGummereiPad
@@lolocaboclo pilots are required to do a walk around inspection, check the engine the tires the lights making sure everything is closed properly.
Things didn't go south, they went southwest. Hee hee hee 😅
Geeeet out of here! 😂😂
The best today!👍👍👍
DEI hires are the new generations of Aviation engineers
Somebody used a can opener.
The entire industry needs more oversight and regulations.
Yes indeed, but prepare for the extra maintenance to be reflected in ticket prices ...
“left them terrified”
“oh, it fell off.”
MAINTENANCE
and diversity quotas.
I saw an inboard engine cowling cover come unlatched on a Southwest flight about 12 years ago. I notified a flight attendant to then notified the captain who came over and looked at it. We were already at cruise so he elected to continue and made an uneventful landing. On the way out he told me that he planned on chewing out maintenance.
I always carry a flashlight, tournequet, Israeli bandage with blood stop in my carry on. Helped a SW maintenance guy work in the plane during a stop over, using my flashlight. If you fly enough, you experience everything as I have . . . loss of hydraulics and medical emergency. I am just a consumer.
Now this is podracing!
WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
_"I'll try spinning that's a good trick!"_
Maintenance didn't latch the cowling
Most probable cause
For something like this to happen, both maintenance and QA didn't do their jobs.
Pay is too low for the employees to care
Isn't this more of a southwest maintenance issue? I mean its a pretty old plane being 737-800 (introduced in mid 90s)
The US military still flies thousands of C-130s built-in 1956. What the heck are you talking about??
Yea, almost definitely someone didn't latch the covers after maintenance. NOT a Boeing problem. I'm really glad the Today reporting included a comment that aviation specialists said that this is not that uncommon and not a cause for over-concern. Kudos to Today for keeping some reality in the reporting.
Yeah. I sometimes suspect these types of stories are leaked by Boeing short sellers:)
0:42 this man's testimony of the event is so informative.
I didn't actually see the part where the cowling fell off....or the other 8 million videos about it.
This is getting ridiculous
What is ridiculous is you thinking this is a Boeing problem.
Internet idiots slating the plane maker when the obvious cause is a maintenance oversight.
Like blaming Ford for your car running out of petrol/gas.😢
its crazy how all the Boeing Planes are falling apart at the same exact time.
'Incidents like that are rarely catastrophic'. Perhaps such incidents should be included as part of the in-flight entertainment
It’s southwest that’s the fun part :)
Southwest Airlines = Greyhound Bus With WINGS.
The cowling is not part of the engine! It's part of the airframe - the airframe!
“While the plane ia manufactured by Boeing, the engine is not” 😂 that’s just brutal lol
A reality check for many people criticizing Boeing although they have the aviation knowledge of a redditor.
@@codingvio7383 You're giving most of these people way too much credit here if you think they even have enough knowledge to use reddit lol
Cowling is made by boeing
737-800 was one of the really good planes, this is a maintenance thing
I’m starting to wonder if the star liner heat tiles start peeling off during the accent back through earth’s atmosphere.
So you are telling me that Boeing is already not taking responsibility for it by saying its not their engine?
It’s okay. It happens all the time. Don’t be afraid
KEEP FLYING SOUTHWEST
Just came from an international trip taking four flights, all Boeing. I was thinking of these videos lol
This reminds me of a 1994 Op-ed cartoon in Newsweek. Two guys are standing next to a Valujet DC-9. One of them kicks the tire, and the whole plane falls apart! The other guy yells: "I TOLD YOU NOT TO KICK THE TIRE!!!🤬
All that banging around could have severed some vital engine controls and then it conks out or smash into the horizontal stabilizer in the rear which controls the pitch and then WHAMMO it's in a deep uncontrollable deep dive or high pitch up to an inevitable stall. This is a mission critical maintenance failure
Is it a secret on your reporting , who built the engine ? When was the last service to the engine ?
*you are no longer safe on a plane no more. every time you fly, better pray.* 🤣
Boeing’s new “air-cooled engine” design 😒
So you think this is a Boeing issue? Interesting.
Boeing can’t catch a break lol
My pogo stick goes BOING.
This reminds me of when boeing whacked that whistleblower recently
I’m never flying in a plane without a pressure suit with an oxygen mask and a parachute 🪂
André... André.... you lost another 737?
The fall of Boeing is just insane. At one time, it was a premier airplane manufacturer but now it’s just going into damage control every week it seems like.
A 737..no surprise..
Has literally nothing to do with the type of airplane it is. This is like if you forgot to close the hood on your car and then tried to say it was the manufacturers fault.
im surprised how calm the passengers were
Nothing to do with Boeing or possibly even the engine manufacturer. This is about operational maintenance teams
It seems to be latches were totally unlatched
See now, if the window shade was required to be lowered instead of open, nobody woulda seen it
Gee, makes me wonder why that whistleblower’s death got everyone’s eyebrows raising!
To fail that spectacularly as soon as the aircraft got up to speed -- I am betting a number access latches/fasteners were left unlatched/unfastened after an inspection or some maintenance work where the cowling was opened or removed.
I figure this is what regular passenger go through riding with southwest
clang clang clang went the trolley
Boeing Boeing Boeing blah blah ,blame maintenance overload/overwork and mass retirement and layoffs of experience maintainers due to Covid. Recent data indicates a widening gap between the number of retiring aircraft mechanics and those entering the field
my two uncles and dad made their respective Trades a "craft" and set high standards as the Greatest Generation. today?? I'm doing maintenance on a 22 year old building and lots of stuff is in backwards, upside down, incomplete, installed stupidly, missing scews, bolts, wrong part used, sheeesh. No once give a s....t any more. That retirement curve means you don't have the old guys mentoring the up and coming young people.
Notice how the mention if was a BOEING plane isn't mentioned. YES IT WAS A BOEING PLANE!
Know they won't yet a drop ejection and parachutes system bound to come in useful at this rate.
Never saw any of these problems when everything was analog.
You can't tell me that nobody in the ground crew couldn't have noticed something wrong before departure.
Honestly that’s not really a Boeing problem they don’t make the engines
It’s probably a maintenance problem or someone that forgot to latch something. Someone likely wasn’t trained properly on the procedure
All the people in the comments trying to sound like they know something are just spreading misinformation 😒
That’s horrifying
Houston, we have a problem.
CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION!
Correlation = Boeing
Causation = Maintenance mistake
Boeing sure seems to have some issues with their planes these days.
"I am leaving on a jet plane, don't know if I'll be back again".
Keep raising ticket prices and stop doing maintenance. Profit.
Amtrak is looking better every day.
southwest? go northeast!
Someone is gonna loose their job. Maintenance or whoever did the preflight inspection.
@@waholoopesorry74 Hey aviation expert ...!
IT IS A BOEING MADE COWLING!!!
Look’s scary but it’ll fly!
Who’s responsible for this; pilot’s walk around , maintenance, or both?
Both
NBC's Today Show, puts their mascot on at the end.
Oh, I'm just going to pieces over this......
Thats just cosmetic. Carry on!
Dont worry its still safe to fly they already think of all this so enjoy the flight
What I want to understand is why didn't the pilot do an emergency abort on take off and if he took off not circle around immediately for an emergency landing? There should be cameras mounted on all aircraft that film all sides of the aircraft for pilots to monitor from the cockpit because they don't seem to trust what the passengers and flight attendants tell them.
Everytime i hear about a plane crashing, or having issues like this, its always a boeing, never an airbus. 😅
Airlines are having so many safety issue but at the same time keep jacking up prices on us! Nothing like paying more to be less safe!
Unfortunately thats the new norm. Higher price lower quality.
They really don’t, more media sensationalism right now, a 737 is literally taking off or landing almost ever second of every day, millions of flight hours, just being highlighted more than normal as media gets more clicks after the door issue (that one was legit Boeing and not good however lol)
And not one joke about something being out there in the wing, messing with the plane.
Imagine, if you will...
Profits above all else. What could *possibly* go wrong?
Please tell me that this isn't related to the news story that's been trending about an engine having fallen off of a Boeing aircraft during takeoff... Because if it is, I smell a huge lawsuit and Boeing sure could use the money right now.
Engines are installed and removed using support equipment designed for that task. Using the support equipment to do this takes time but doesn't stress the engine mounts to crack. Airlines have maintenance crews who discovered utilizing fork lifts is faster to remove and reinstall aircraft engines. Fork lifts are not authorized for engine removal or installation but that doesn't stop anybody. All involved are happy no one got caught until an engine departs the aircraft in flight. Processes are written to esure things like that do not happen, the aircraft can not pull over to a cloud for repairs.
Another bolt is missing.
For every videos showing a plane malfunctioning we should add Team America : World Police's theme song 😂😂😂
I wouldn’t be surprised if they used actual tape or paper to cover that engine.
Despite this happening to a Boeing plane, people should stop blaming them for everything. The CFM-56 wasn't made by Boeing, it was made by CFM International. Yes the cowling was made by Boeing, but the airlines that operate 737s powered by that engine are the ones that maintain the engine and its cowling
That same engine also powers the A320ceo. Airbus also has had similar incidents like this before
Why are so many airplanes falling apart these days?
Rarely... Yet 8 incidents in 2 weeks... Nope!
Just forget it, I'm just going to drive across the US.
Southwest Airlines only used Boeing airplanes....
My theory to this incident is not Boeing's fault. I think that this is a matainence issue. Mabey the cowling wasn't locked properly after matanience.
Live next to an airport will be sueing if property damage happenes
On the other hand they hire the most diverse candidates which is the single most important thing when you fly people in planes nowadays.
No video acctually showing the plane taking off with this problem. weird
What is weird is your expectation that there should be video of everything.
@@GH-oi2jfit’s always “show us the video” then when a video of the incident is shown “it’s obviously fake” gotta keep moving those goal posts
Anybody get the feeling they want airline tickets to go up in price
It's boeing to crash and we're all boeing to die..
The Boeing won’t solve the quality issues instead they took down the whistle blower.
do ppl. work anymore? as in do what they should do? from bottom to top?
Nope.
@@captfcknut - haha!!
These aren’t coincidences
I feel safer fly on Koryo air than any American. That's it, I'm training it. Half of me thinks it's not the planes, it's Mother Nature.
Companies are just hiring employees who dont care anymore. Sad
Who is Boeing going to _”silence”_ 😵 now?
Off topic here but, hey, You Tube!! REALLY not liking the new home page format!!
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