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Engine failures may be classified as either as "contained" or "uncontained". A contained engine failure is one in which all internal rotating components remain within or embedded in the engine's case (including any containment wrapping that is part of the engine), or exit the engine through the tail pipe [14] or air inlet. [15]
Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 was a regularly scheduled flight from Pensacola, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia.On July 6, 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a McDonnell Douglas MD-88, was on takeoff roll from Runway 17 at Pensacola when it experienced an uncontained, catastrophic turbine engine failure that caused debris from the front compressor hub of the left engine to penetrate the left aft ...
The uncontained failure resulted in the engine's fan disk departing the aircraft, tearing out components including parts of the No. 2 hydraulic system and supply hoses in the process; these were later found near Alta, Iowa.
Qantas Flight 32 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore.On 4 November 2010, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A380, suffered an uncontained failure in one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines.
U.S. air safety expert John Cox said having problems with one engine is generally not a significant event, but the incident sounded like an uncontained engine failure due to the hole and NTSB ...
Uncontained engine failures occur when parts within an aircraft's engine separate and break free. Pages in category "Airliner accidents and incidents involving uncontained engine failure" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The National Transportation Safety Board tweeted that it was investigating a reported "uncontained" engine failure on Wednesday night's Delta Flight 1418 from Atlanta to Orlando, Florida. The NTSB ...
TAM Airlines Flight 9755, a 2001 accident involving an uncontained engine failure and a passenger being partially ejected from the aircraft through a window and killed; Southwest Airlines Flight 3472, a 2016 accident involving the same airline with an contained engine failure with a similar aircraft and engine type without fatalities