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Spirit Airlines A319 returns to DFW with one engine down, smoke in cabin
This occurred after takeoff aboard an Atlanta-bound A319 Tuesday afternoon but very few details are being reported nearly 24 hours later. The flight originated at DFW. Passengers describe vibration, flames visible around engine and smoke rushing into the cabin. Bird strike? (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
CFM 56 engine, thousands have been built, good engine but if not inspected properly then anything can happen, sounds like a hot section failed but the NTSB will get to the bottom of it, they are one of the few Government Agencies that do a great job. The smoke most likely came from the compressor. Delta had a JT8D-219 fail back in the mid 90's when the main fan disk had a catastrophic failure due to Delta missing a crack in the disk during overhaul, two people were killed when pieces of the disk penetrated the fuselage
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Spirit Airlines experienced an "uncontained" engine failure which is probably the most serious of engine failures. "Uncontained" engine failure means that broken pieces and parts of the engine flew out, at very high velocity, of the outer engine housing. That shrapnel can cause significant damage to an aircraft and in some cases jeopardize the integrity of the aircraft airworthiness. United 232 at Sioux City is a good example of how severe these types of failures can be. I feel that Spirit dodged a Big Bullet with this one.
NTSB now saying engine failure was contained.
http://avherald.com/h?article=46a09b94
http://avherald.com/h?article=46a09b94
Guess we'll have to wait and see what the "Lab" says. It just sounds a bit too violent for a contained blowout.
Technically it was contained.