URAL A321: bird strike, both engines out and crash lands in corn field.

Stovepipe

Look at American Airlines flight 191. The left engine came off in flight and went over the wing without touching it, the aircraft crashed and all were lost. Equally, Aer Lingus nearly lost a 737 when an engine seized within a couple of seconds on take off. The engine was determined later to have gone from full power to a standstill inside two seconds and the torque of that sudden stoppage sheared the engine mounts. The engine actually dropped off the pylon and was only held on by a couple of pipes and a cable.

Locker10a

Stovepipe wrote: »

Look at American Airlines flight 191. The left engine came off in flight and went over the wing without touching it, the aircraft crashed and all were lost. Equally, Aer Lingus nearly lost a 737 when an engine seized within a couple of seconds on take off. The engine was determined later to have gone from full power to a standstill inside two seconds and the torque of that sudden stoppage sheared the engine mounts. The engine actually dropped off the pylon and was only held on by a couple of pipes and a cable.

Never heard of this EI incident, is there a link anywhere to its report ?

Stovepipe

T'was in pre-internet days, when the Department of Transport ruled over the skies. Gay Byrne was a passenger, which was why it got huge publicity at the time. I wouldnt know where you'd get to read the accident report unless you tried the National Library.

lintdrummer

Locker10a wrote: »

Never heard of this EI incident, is there a link anywhere to its report ?

Briefly mentioned in this article, but no details.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/such-a-disastrous-loss-of-power-now-a-rarity-26491242.html

goingnowhere

Stovepipe wrote: »

Look at American Airlines flight 191. The left engine came off in flight and went over the wing without touching it, the aircraft crashed and all were lost. Equally, Aer Lingus nearly lost a 737 when an engine seized within a couple of seconds on take off. The engine was determined later to have gone from full power to a standstill inside two seconds and the torque of that sudden stoppage sheared the engine mounts. The engine actually dropped off the pylon and was only held on by a couple of pipes and a cable.

One engine mount bolt was still in place. They landed safely despite Boeing and P&W agreeing afterwards it was the worst engine damage they had seen on the 737 and stated they would not expect it to be survivable.

Captain cancelled the emergency and taxied to the gate...

HTCOne

Locker10a wrote: »

Never heard of this EI incident, is there a link anywhere to its report ?

A brief summary

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19851207-0

goingnowhere

Far more details https://ialpa.net/ialpa-wright-brothers-award-2005/

Locker10a

goingnowhere wrote: »

Far more details https://ialpa.net/ialpa-wright-brothers-award-2005/

Thanks

goingnowhere

There are three bolts to hold on the engine, 2 failed.

This was an uncontained failure the fan blades exited through the engine casing, but thankfully didn't impact the aircraft.

As they still had one engine they had a chance where as the A321 and Sully had nothing but forward momentum and gravity

PukkaStukka

More musings here

https://www.pprune.org/showthread.php?t=174662