How many follow the UPS flight tragedy?
Back in 2019, I started contributing to FlightRadar24 and started following aviation related news shortly after. I became a fan of the youtube channel called blancolirio, which is run by a guy named Juan Brown who reviews aviation related incidences from a pilots perspective. I wasn’t drawn to the incidents themselves, but the technical details behind them. I like the process of figuring out what happened.
This particular one is so catastrophic, it’s unreal to see the destruction. It’s sad to think about those impacted. It was an impossible situation that came up at the exact worst time of a flight. The point of no return of a take-off, fully loaded, doomed before the wheels left the ground.
The videos are out of a movie, the dashcam one is horrific its going to effect them for years just seeing that let alone if they new someone that got hurt, looks like to me the engine came off, that was a hell of a fire
Story:
I was driving south on Hwy 26 in SC and on the other side of the road I saw an 18 wheeler drive of the side of the road, get airborne and crash over an embankment then disappear… when it disappeared I thought I was dreaming or something, there were very few people on the road so I turned around and looked over the side and yep there was a truck down there, the force was so great that he snapped trees in half, he hit a small hill before the embankment and all 18 wheels were off the ground at the same time, it was so strange to see it all before my eyes, it just not suppose to happen, to this day its strange, he got elected and thrown from the truck, he lived but he was in some pain, I’m guessing he was doing 80ish and fell asleep, the trailer was empty.
There was a truck behind him and myself were the only ones that saw him go over the edge, if we didn’t see him he would of been down there for no telling how long
I have been traveling and not watching the news so I just read up on the flight/crash… wonder if the maintenance is less on the flights on that type of plane? I would like to think that if they saw cracks they would not just fix it but remove it from service, I wonder how much they just close their eyes on
That particular aircraft has had known issues with the engine mounts (pylons). I read that there was maintenance done in September, so those records will reveal a lot I’m sure. It’s rare that these incidences are some novel problem, they’re usually a series of mistakes that lead to something catastrophic.
In this case, it seems like some maintenance issue is most likely the issue. Time will tell, the investigations are incredibly thorough.
I would of thought that a 34 year old plane would have to go through a major rebuild, the stress that they go through is unreal, I know nothing about flying and planes but I do know metal and that flexing for that long is got to fail
I hope they come up with a plan so it doesn’t happen again
Maybe slightly OT but I remember watching a video before any Mandella effect stuff on how they removed jet engines.
They put 2 scissor lifts on the sides of the engine and directly over the engine opened the pylon, disconnected everything, put a huge transmission jack under it, then disconnected the mount and dropped it down.
Now, Mandella says the engines have always been in front of the wings with the pylons sticking out the back, and they have to disassemble it BEHIND the engine.
To me that’s also a fire hazard because now the hot jet exhaust is coming out under the wing full of fuel, and could melt the aluminum wing before the plane starts to move.
