Quote Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy View Post
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.