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CCIP · 11-05-10, 04:01 PM

Interesting! Just curious as all, the FADEC connection being cut totally makes sense. To me that just goes to show that the failure was indeed really alarming, as it could've cut other things - when I saw that this was definitely an uncontained failure, I immediately thought back to incidents where that cut things like hydraulic lines and proved fatal; I assume that's still an extreme case even for turbine failures like this, but still... whew!

And yeah, I'm almost certain that the 744 incident is coincidence, and probably a relatively pedestrian engine failure that got seized on by media that are rather hyped up on the previous day's 380 incident.

11-05-10, 04:01 PM	#34
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Interesting! Just curious as all, the FADEC connection being cut totally makes sense. To me that just goes to show that the failure was indeed really alarming, as it could've cut other things - when I saw that this was definitely an uncontained failure, I immediately thought back to incidents where that cut things like hydraulic lines and proved fatal; I assume that's still an extreme case even for turbine failures like this, but still... whew! And yeah, I'm almost certain that the 744 incident is coincidence, and probably a relatively pedestrian engine failure that got seized on by media that are rather hyped up on the previous day's 380 incident. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)