Southwest flight makes emergency landing after engine cover peels off
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- As Southwest Flight 3695 taxied down the runway in Denver for a flight to Houston on Sunday, part of an engine’s protective cover peeled back. The plane made an emergency landing after the part fell off during takeoff and struck a wing flap. NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports.
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The results of cutting costs and cutting corners, as well as hiring untrained cheap labor.
I agree.
You can’t do maintenance on an aircraft without holding an A&P certificate, so your statement is not accurate.
@@artjackson8360 lol, right? his comment sounds like a right-wing nutjob trying to make a passive-aggressive comment regarding illegal aliens or something
@@_rob_. No, not to my knowledge. You need the A&P certificate to do work on a commercial airliner. You need a minimum of 2000 hours of documented hands on experience before you can take the tests for the certificates. However, for smaller aircraft you can do some work as long as it’s signed off by an experienced A&P with inspection privileges.
Where do you find all the trained specialists?
Attention passengers on the right side of the plane - please look to your left.
((instinctively looks right))
Srry...
but I remember Eisenhower as President, you ain't fooling me!!!!!
Remove before flight
I have a friend who works in the aircraft industry as a mechanic and they will tell you they know what the problem is not enough time to work on planes in between flights. Two few maintenance personnel and too many demands that can’t be met. More flights than never are leaving US airports but guess what you don’t have enough people to adequately maintain that equipment. And when an airplane lands, that’s not like you can say well set this one aside until tomorrow no, you have a schedule to keep because if you don’t keep that schedule people get upset you don’t keep that millions of dollars could be lost. So what do you have to do make it work. When you do that mistakes get made.
If you want to see this problem fixed, there are two things you need to do first encourage more people to go into the field of being aircraft mechanics. My high school did it no problem two years after graduating with your high school diploma you could be a certified aircraft mechanic . Next, you need to up the standards on airplane care and maintenance in America. I know we want to make sure our flights leave on time and guarantee that when I book a flight, I can get there but understand when you have this heavy volume of airplanes in the air and so few maintenance personnel on the ground, people are going to get held up and they won’t like it, but they’d rather not have part of their airplane fall off either.
There should be a song with the lyrics, "so few men so little time, what can we do?"
Nice try boeing, you're not gonna fool us! Fix your planes!
@@cooley987 This time Boeing is innocent. The maintenance of this planes is awful, Southwest is responsible of the maintenance of there airplanes.
@@FranceManhique no one is being fooled by boeing
@@cooley987 I can see you don't know how aircraft maintenance works.
Sad for you for not being mature enough to see beyond the hatred.
"They are rarely catastrophic"
- famous last words
Yeah right before it rips off and hits a flap sending the entire bird down
Yep. Good to know. On the other hand, if the reporter said this is "usually catastrophic," I'm taking the train or driving. :/
@@samhampton9139the flaps are in the back…impossible
That's right, please board the plan say that words
It would be rather interesting to see this mother@#$&?s opinion, if a family member of his was onboard a flight that the plane is falling apart .......
BOEING is also the sound of the nuts and bolts popping off mid-air.
Good comment.
Yooo. That's hilarious!
I think you have nuts and bolts loose.
Please tell that to the people in the replies to my comment, I’d copy and paste, but I don’t wanna steal your joke xD
Engine is not made by Boeing
Would you like to try for double jeopardy where the prizes really increase
As an aircraft mechanic I always worry about forgetting those latches.
Pilot (or First Officer) is supposed to check too during a walk around
dont u have a checklist signed off after closing a engine...?
It happens
@@ytzpilotlet’s hope they know what they are looking at
@@krishnamahadev4208we don’t have a seperate checklist for closing the cowls. It’s usually part of the job that is being done at the time. I double and sometimes triple check them. I don’t want to be “THAT” guy
Oh... another Boeing plane with issues???
*If it's Boeing I ain't going*
The 737 and 737NG aren't even made anymore are they, it's been like 5 years? And they are highly reliable and have an amazing track record. This engine isn't even made by Boeing and it wouldn't matter if it was because this was a maintenance issue.
@@HoomanPlays careful Bruv, don’t OD on that copium
@@somethingelse6273 I don't think you understand what copium means. 737 and 737NG have almost perfect track records, those are facts. Any recent issues you've heard of that were Boeings fault like the door coming off, or the 2 plane crashes, those are the 737 MAX which is their new plane and has obvious design issues because it was rushed in order to compete with AIrbus's new A350
@@HoomanPlays. Thanks for explaining. I haven’t flown since 2006 and have been considering traveling again. All the issues lately are causing my palms to sweat!
@@merk9569 I would personally never get on a 737 MAX, luckily I believe they are still grounded and production on them has halted. Was a stupid plane design anyways, they just put bigger engines on the 737 and moved the wings closer to the nose.
OMG! What’s with all these airplane mechanical issues?! I’m seriously rethinking my travel plans for summer vacation.
I took Amtrak instead.
You are far more likely to die driving to the airport than from a plane crash. There are 100,000 commercial flights every DAY. How many deadly plane crashes do you hear about? Maybe once every year or two.
@@aznfriedrice415
I mean, if yer gon'uh gamble,
play the percentage.
I so get that.
"Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel." - Superman
@@AstroBear11 Not a wise one for sure.
NBC blew this out of proportion, repeatedly showing footage of the engine cowling after the plane was already back on the ground, rolling down the runway after landing. Repoter starts off, "it's the very last thing anyone wants to see," but actually, seeing the plane on the ground, on the runway, after an emergency is the very first thing anyone wants to see.
Southwest can’t go full year without multiple emergencies
Isn't this company also under investigation for murder after someone tried to whistle blow on their terrible maintenance standards? Lol
Completely different entities and not related whatsoever.
That guy got murdered
@@Jab_Airnot related whatsoever? That must be a joke😂
That's Boeing the aircraft maker
Completely different. Boeing sold this aircraft many years ago to Southwest and Southwest is responsible for maintaining the aircraft. The piece that fell off is a removable piece for maintaince crew
Gotta check the stock price tomorrow
Airliners are almost never good to invest in, even buying during covid would have seen little returns. Airliners make money off frequent flyer miles for the most part and those are most always (if not always) handled by a separate company.
Aircraft Safety Concerns for Paying Travelers JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE.
Its funny how we never have to worry about plane parts detaching in flight, be it door or landing wheel or wing flap etc.. until recently
We also never worried about repercussions of not fully supporting a Zionist state untill recently...
You don't really need those parts anyway.
And I think they just proved that aye!
😂
Not the first time this has happened and it will not be the last.
Silver lining: There’s always an emergency exit next to the window seat from a Boeing plane.
This has nothing to do with Boeing
Lack of Maintenance. Pre flight inspection ? Not Boeing's fault.
I worked for the Commuter Arm of a large Major US Airline When we took MX(Mechanical) delays we had a saying that we would tell the Passengers:'It's far better to be on the ground wishing you were up there! Than to be........' We never had to finish that sentence!
This one time at band camp the tuning slide fell off my trombone, no one was hurt.
Always inspiring confidence.
First of all, the engine comes from 3rd party supplier. Not made by Boeing. 2nd, it's the airline maintenance team's responsibility to make sure any rivet got loose or came off.
Can we get high speed trains????
The new "Boeing Streamliner....."
No, we have to keep spending money on Israel Ukraine and illegals sorry.
Move to Japan
I’m so glad that nobody was hurt by the engine 😮
There’s a gremlin talking the engine apart sir
The aliens in jealous mode is becoming wild day by day,loosening bolts,playing mouse or maybe removing toilet bowl.
Who signed on the maintenances work? Say good bye to your career
What is going on with these planes?
Boeing again
@@shaungordon9737This has absolutely nothing to do with Boeing and if you were actually educated in the aviation sector you would know that this is an AIRLINE issue not manufacturer issue. This is the result of an airline engineer forgetting to close the cowling latches on the engine. This has nothing to do with Boeing and it has nothing to do with id say even CFM.
“RARELY CATASTROPHIC”. There’s no way you can escape when that rare moment happens to you.
There are about a hundred things that I would rather not see out the window of my plane more than a loose engine cowling. The engine on fire, engine missing, gremlin ripping into engine, baby hanging on for dear life, the wing falling off, another plane about to hit my plane, only ocean while on a Reno to Houston flight, the lack of a piece of glass separating me from the outside air. In the current under regulated airline environment where some of those items have recently happened, saying this is the worst thing to see is extreme hyperbole.
a monster on the wing
Why haven’t all Boeing 737 been grounded with all the incidents occurring?
This isn't Boeing's fault. Someone at Southwest didn't properly latch the engine cowling.
There are thousands of 73's operating globally, it would be neither practical nor nessisary to do so.
This has nothing to do with Boeing and is more than likely due to mistakes made by Southwest maintenance crews.
Shouldn’t there be a warning light if it’s not latched properly?
@@scottguy5452 no need its impractical to have warning lights on every panel on the aircraft
As a former retired Load master for many airlines,,, we had what was called PST checks ….Primary, Secondary and Tertiary checks on everything.
Now days airlines want to cut corners to save $$$$ on employees, and make more $$$$ for their pockets and safety is out the window. Airline Customer etiquette doesn’t help either ,,,,,etiquette is worse the Walmart’s best polite and dressed…
Their priority is hiring a diverse workforce, not maintaining the aircraft.
And here's the uninvited, random diversity comment! Nice job.
@@mwd331is he lying?
@Lfilpo I wouldn't describe it as lying, no. But it's a completely unfounded and baseless claim based on their politics and dislike of diversity. The cowling was left unlatched, the race of the person responsible is irrelevant.
@@mwd331He does have a point forced diversity is never a good thing
someone forgot the latches ,, someone in a ball of trouble , small job to do but big damage here , happens on Airbus as well , this has nothing to do with Boeing by the way , its a bit like blaming Mercedes for leaving the bonnet open even though the car left germany 4 years ago
So many comments here have no clue what they are talking about. I especially like the ones that think the pilot knows more about the aircraft than the guy who fixes it does. We will have to wait until the investigation is over to know the exact reason but unfortunately from past occurrences I tend to agree with you that the cowl latches were probably not latched. The other point that most people just don’t get is that, as you say, this has also happened on Airbus aircraft
@@NicholasRiviera-Dr thank you Nicholas , good comment and lets see what happens with the investigation ,, how long will that take to figure what happened , so walk arounds are important for a pilot before flight,, its the done thing providing hes looking and not just ambleing around just to streach the legs ,, the latches are normally painted with a hi vis color for night work as the torch will spot the latches down and in the open position,, providing the person with the torch is aware of what they are looking at , but no point in looking if you cant see the danger of what can happen when the craft goes down the line and onto the runway and panels start fluttering in the high winds .................
@@johnnoonan5802 I wonder if painting the fan cowl latches is a Company modification? I have seen them painted orange on other airlines but our CFM fan cowl latches are unpainted (B737-800). I’m not 100% certain but I think the pilot walk around are Government regulation in our Country and must be done. Seen plenty of leg stretchers during my time. I don’t think they get told a lot but to look for the obvious things such as fluid leakage etc. I had a F/O come talk to me a few weeks back. The aircraft was on the ground for an hour and a half and he had a bit of time up his sleeve. He asked if I wouldn’t mind showing him around the wheel well. We spent a good 20 minutes looking and talking. When l spoke to the Captain later as part of the departure process he seemed disappointed he wasn’t invited along
Someone forgot to tighten the Tridair fittings on the cowl.
It's disconcerting to see a plane fall apart while it's in the air!👺🤺🇺🇸
didn't you'll hear, they are rarely catastrophic// so no worries
This is not boeing's fault, it's the manufacturer of the engines fault.
Boeing statement:"this one is not our fault"!😂
Because it isn’t…
I was on a small commercial plane about forty years ago that had the outside door open up just after take off. I was staring at about a 4” gap of light around the edge. I was in the last seat, so I got up and closed the d- door. I don’t think that there were more than 20 people on that plane. When we landed, I told the airline people that I had to close the door. They acted like they didn’t believe me. The two men who were sitting in front of me confirmed that I had closed the door.
And......???
((man I love a good serial cliffhanger))
You ever watch the old Buck Roger's series with Buster Crabb?
(just curious)
@@AstroBear11
I'm telling you,
those moose can be deadly on a road if you're not a Hornblower.
There's a man on the wing!--William Shatner, in the Twilight Zone.
If im Boeing CEO i would explain this is a new feature, a new engine cover will grow again before the next flight 😂
like shark's teeth. one falls off another one grows in.
Boeing does not make aircraft engines. This is NOT a Boeing issue. A/C Maintenance failed to secure cowling latches.
@@aa777flyer doesn't even matter if they made the engine or not. This was an issue with maintenance and SouthWest does their own maintenance
Like a snake shedding skin.
For the record, you can choose between Boeing and Airbus in the search settings.
Southwest needs to give up the 👻 already
A pilot or copilot is supposed to do a walkaround of the aircraft prior to takeoff and check that things like engine covers are properly fastened down. It could have been a problem higher up where the problem couldn't be seen but I have to wonder if they are paying attention to the condition of the aircraft like they should. Then there was the case of a passenger noticing a crack in the fuselage as they were boarding-which later ripped free.
They're also supposed to fly sober, not fall asleep, and keep an eye on the instruments.
But hey...
who's perfect aye?
Walking around a B737 or A320 is not like walking around a C172 where you wiggle the elevators and ailerons and put a wooden stick into the wing tank to see if you have enough gas. Commercial jetliners are HUGE and almost impossible to completely inspect from the ground. Pilots rely heavily on mechanics to do their job properly just as passengers rely heavily on pilots.
@@rayray8687 well said
Well that’s terrifying!
Money says that maintenance crew was incredibly "diverse."
lol or 'outsourced to regions unmentioned'
@@raccoon874 My bet's on "both."
MORE DEI!! Forget rules, forget making sure people know how to put things together, forget training...as long as we are diverse it will all make sense!!!
I'm guessing there's a "Scare airline passengers" TikTok challenge.
Turns out it's more profitable to just have unsafe planes that break.
The last thing I want to see looking out of the window is the wing detaching!
Along with the ground spinning rapidly towards me.
That would be a bummer.
Maintenance regularly and have two party checks verify jobs done properly. So even if you missed something, then another worker should have caught it. That's the money you got to spend.
Like a real life horror movie every day with them.
Maybe it’s one of the mechanics on his 3rd shift in 24HRS that fell asleep and forgot to secure the cowling? Yeah 3rd shift in 24HRS. Facts
I remember forgetting to secure the bonnet catch on my Morris minor 50 years ago and it flying up blocking my vision. I must have been travelling at about 30mph. Very dramatic and unexpected. Still, a little less dramatic than for the passengers aboard the Boeing. I suppose that with the recent spate of incidents associated with this manufacturers aircraft, the passengers just took it as fairly normal and got back to the inflight movie.
It’s just a matter of time before a plane goes down. You can blame maintenance but their only doing what corporate tells them. It’s all about cost no matter what the cost.
No they arnt just doing what the airline tells them. This looks to be a simple mistake that somebody missed and forgot to close the engine cowling latches.
With the "Many" airplane problems over the past year it makes driving even long distances a better choice and taking a cruise ship vacation. Shalom
David attenborough's voice:It's normal for planes to shed during mating season to attract partners to produce offspring
Made in USA, very high quality.
dei quality
Nothing to do with “quality” this issue has happened to Airbus as-well. When airline maintenance forget to close the engine cowling latches. Nothing to do with Boeing and probably not even CFM
Thank God it wasn’t the engine.
Headline sounds a little misleading 🤔 doesn’t sound like this happened before they left the runway
The tech had to take his coffee break---he never returned to finish the job
all of a sudden this stuff is happening
Why do you think?
This stuff has always happened. It's just being reported on because it makes a great headline.
@@erauprcwa Spot on! If people actually knew what happens in hangars and on ramp or even in cockpits! People wouldn't fly!
Boeing considers airplanes that are also convertibles a "feature." But really, whether it's in manufacturing or maintenance, does it really matter to the passengers if the plane goes down?
It kinda does matter because that is where the blame and responsibility will be held
@@Mgaffo222 I'm just saying will the passengers care where the problem originated from, when they only have seconds to live.
Not a Boeing issue as they don’t make the engines and this was an older 737NG
It’s a southwest maintenance issue but don’t let that stop you from getting foot in mouth disease
It looks like a maintenance issue indeed.
Boeing co is like "do you think that would be the last? wait for our next surprise.."
There is a huge increasing of stuff falling off of airplanes. And those airplanes fly over me.
Why are so many of these happening every week?
i was a DEN today when this happen. i saw the plane taxi back in.
Looks like MayDay may be getting some fresh shows pretty soon 😁
Not again. Holy crap. Dudes like, ,"meh, haopens all the time." BS.
Engine Cowling are Secondary Structure and not as critical as PSE but they did hit other parts of the Aircraft. That said I recently retired after 37 years in part because I am concerned about Maintenance being performed by new hires. These young mechanics are constantly being distracted by cell phone usage instead of concentrating on their job at hand. They don't read the procedures to perform the task and are more concerned with creating overtime. Then jobs don't get finished and someone else new takes over and there are more risks involved. Work ethics need to improve greatly.
Just took a flight from Houston to Seattle last night, when our plane pulling out, I looked out the window and saw the guy fueling up the next plane was on his phone.
This is not just a Boeing issue, there have been similar engine cowling issues with Airbus planes.
They have the same supplier material used from cola tin can.
It’s not a Boeing issue at all
It’s a maintenance issue at Southwest
Pilots always need walks around and do their own safety visual inspection before takeoff any aircraft…Maverick check list ✅
Maybe that is the problem. Should have a maintenance man to do the job
Do commercial pilots do external preflight checks on airliners this big?
Yes they do a walk around I work as cabin crew can confirm they do
Yes they do. But what should also be happening is a preflight inspection by the maintenance man, he is the guy that knows about how the aircraft works and what problems there could be. Many people think that pilots know everything about the aircraft they fly, but pilots really know more about how to operate the aircraft not how to fix it. In other words, the maintenance man is the best guy to do the preflight inspection
Imagine giving Boeing money in 2024...
Are you planning on purchasing a fleet of aircraft from them?
Imagine being so badly educated on the matter that you think everything that goes wrong with an aircraft is down to the manufacturer… this is southwest maintenance not closing the engine cowling latches properly this has nothing to do with Boeing or even the engine manufacturer CFM
Nothing for nothing but aviation safety/maintenance/oversight seems to have gone out the window.
i would be freaking tf out.. land this plane now!
When was the last time an engine cover blew off an Airbus plane?
2013, a BA flight out of Heathrow lost both. This was for the same likely reason as this one, they didn't latch the cowling..
You just got put in your place🤣
although this is like a maintenance issue, this is acc just terrible timing for Boeing.
This is whst happens when people are forced to work grave shift because of low seniority, some of the techs will work graves for 10 years i told them to shov it.. best decision i ever made...
The bolts to this was sitting on the flight attendants station along with a pair of pliers and a note that read: oh if you get some time, can you put these bolts on? We ran out of time!
Please don't be Boeing .. Please don't be Boeing .. Please don't be Boeing .. Please don't be Boeing ..
How would you like to be halfway across the Pacific Ocean and see this? Shades of Amelia Earhart.
Time to put boings out of commission and start getting maintenance people who actually take this job serious. Airplane maintenance and working on them should be one of the jobs u take serious, u are putting lives in danger by bs’ing a job like that. This isnt racking carts at a supermarket
What's the problem? This airplane is perfectly "Boeing safe"
Nothing to do with Boeing… aircraft maintenance
@@Mgaffo222 Yes, totally. It's just the pilots, the engine manufacturers, maintenance, Spirit, the weather, some random fly, eh - anything.
Another name for this is "Boeing safe"
Meanwhile, the same CFM56 engine on an Airbus A320, you need to open it with a special key stored in the cockpit.
The key has a long red REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT streamer.
If the feature is not factory built, the operator can retrofit them.
The newer A320neo go a step further with a pop up mechanical flag and electronic sensors alerting the cockpit when the cowls are not latched up.
Airbus has also lost engine cowlings
If you bother to look it up
Man...seems lately these planes are either badly built or maintenance is a deficit. What do you expect when these flying coffins are only allowed to spend so many minutes on the ground before taking off to another destination?
Another Boeing. Jesus. You don’t get these issues with airbus.
Yeah I’m sure there are never any of these kind of issues on airbus planes. I’m sure that Delta 56 incident on March 24 happened on a Boeing. I’m sure that jetblue plane that needed a emergency landing with its nose gear twisted sideways was a Boeing.. what a flock of dumb sheep of the mass media.
This exact incident happened to an airbus a couple years back, it’s a maintenance issue not a boeing issue.
You do, it's just that most don't make the news unless they're a total disaster or part of a story
Boeing and 737 are part of a story that gets views. Literally someone could break an arm in heavy turbulence on an older generation 737 and the media would air it since it was something involving Boeing + 737
Was William Shatner on the plane?
I would never fly SouthWest, they always have issues every other month it seems
Say good bye to their jobs thise ground maintenance crew
Did not take long for the anti Boeing comments to build up
I wonder how many of those who posted know the engines are not made by Boeing
Endless nightmares for BOEING.
Folks we have to get together! Before there’s big accident.. let’s get it together
Thank GOD, I don't have to fly anymore.
Why?
****EDIT****
Why thank God?
What goes up must come down.The stock price goes up.The Quality comes down.
Quantity over quality
Why the fake photo.
Why am I not surprised it's Boeing?
MLB GOAT- Juan Soto y’all