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This.Originally Posted by Monky
Having been around a few people who got large settlement checks, Monky is absolutely correct.
Having money but being in debilitating pain or physically unable to use it makes it less desirable.
Seatbelt doesn't help much if you're sitting next to the window. Your top half can get pulled out while your bottom half is still buckled up. Story says other passengers pulled her back in which would support the idea that she was likely still buckled.
Was she the one screaming something about a gremlin on the wing just before the engine exploded?
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One of three failures comes to mind, bird strike, ring failure(engine part) or foreign object damage(FOD) from runway. Too bad somebody was killed. We will just have to wait until the NTSB report.
Was a while after TO, was too high for a bird strike. If you look at the photos, there is circular damage, likely a failure of a fan blade. Extremely rare failure.
My father worked for McDonnell Douglas in the early 60s and participated in many chicken gun tests on control surfaces, windshields and turbo-fan engines. Now that he has some dementia, the stories are less, but those are still some of my favorites.
Definitely a blade failure. Early CFM65 experienced this according to wikipedia. I still think something hit the blade to damage it. It would be a real shocker if it was a Lyrid shower meteorite.
I can't even begin to imagine what the odds are of something like that happening to a particular person. That is some seriously bad luck.
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That's a pretty isometric view. Her seat is well within the cone of dispersion.
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