Thread: Airplane part falls onto NY home's front lawn

Ahhhhh, much how the Mesa crew in DEN didn't know the severity of their N1 rotor failure. Now I didn't do too much sticking my head up CRJ asses when I was in BGR, but from what I remember of the location of the parts and how turbines work, I could see how losing the "big silver thing" wouldn't affect the engine parameters much at all. All the functions of the engine would really be unaffected sans maybe a slight...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cptnchia We don't do post-flight walkarounds on international flights. That's what mechanics are for. It's much more civilized than domestic. You get the exercise by walking from the hotel to the nearest bar or store. It's pretty much pack up your stuff, tell the lead flight attendant to grab her OWN bag, head to immigration and off to the waiting crew bus.

What else could be a 3' x 4' cone shaped piece of metal besides the nose?

Quote: Originally Posted by firebirdswm I'm thinking rotary girder.... "My name is Bender. Please insert girder."

Quote: Originally Posted by Joe Gremlin Now the real question is, how many more legs wil that aircraft fly before the F/O happens to look up from his shoes while doing he walk around inspection and notice that one of the engines is missing an exhaust cone? Based on the walk arounds I watched most F/O's do when I worked the ramp, I'm betting at least 4 more legs. Good thing that the Captain does the walk around at my place.

Engine can = the big shiny silver thing on the back of CFM engines.

Quote: Originally Posted by BobDDuck We had an engine can fall off one of our CRJs on the way out of Philly a few years back. It landed in some guy's yard. The crew didn't even know it was gone until they got to Dayton. WHAT?!!!! I can understand being able to have an engine depart a CRJ and not being able to 'feel it'. But how do you have an engine depart the airplane and not notice any unusual gauge readings? I mean do...

Threw a Johnson rod.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cptnchia We don't do post-flight walkarounds on international flights. That's what mechanics are for . It's much more civilized than domestic. You get the exercise by walking from the hotel to the nearest bar or store. Yeah, that is the very reason we walk around our airplane 4 times for a given flight. Yep...4 freakin' times!!! Ever seen how big a C-5 is? That's a lot of freakin'...

I do believe that is a phalangy.