Today over & in Denver...

[Snowman78]

I am sure this aircraft was right above our house just seconds before the engine engine problems.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...925Z/KDEN/KDEN

[brutal]

NASCAR plane, could only turn left.

Missed us by a country mile.

[flogger]

It will be interesting to see how (if) they repair the plane and get it back in service.

[hollohas]

I was on a flight from Honolulu to LA years ago, we'd been in the air about an hour when the plane banked hard. I thought, "Damn". I knew that wasn't a good sign .

We had turned around. After a bit the pilot got on and told us the plane had lost one of the generators. He said it's ok, because there are 3 and we only need 2 but that we couldn't cross to LA without a backup which we no longer had. We had to circle around Honolulu for a long time to burn fuel before we could land. That flight turned into a long couple days.

[O2HeN2]

Good minute by minute breakdown of the flight with coverage of checklists and ATC conversations...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Wler87pwY

O2

[Doc45]

I hate to quote CNN but a friend that's a retired air traffic controller told me about the recent 747 engine that came apart over The Netherlands a few days ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/europ...rnd/index.html

These things happen far more frequently than we hear about as many occur over unpopulated areas.

[Aloha_Shooter]

These things happen far more frequently than we hear about as many occur over unpopulated areas.

One of the reasons we don't hear about it that often is that the planes are so well designed, built, and maintained today that accidents like this are generally survivable. Despite the popular opinion spawned by our mass media and various grandstanding politicians, I am convinced the 737 MAX is a safe plane and always was -- what WASN'T safe and still isn't are the training and maintenance practices outside the US. In both the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines accidents, the copilots who were at the controls during the final moments had levels of experience that were simply unsatisfactory by US standards. Listen to the Flight Safety Detectives podcast rundown of both accidents.

In the case of UA 328, the pilots knew their checklists and memory steps, kept their cool, and flew the plane.

[Doc45]

This ^ deserves a like

[BladesNBarrels]

One of the instructors of a webinar I took on Wednesday had a piece of a Cessna land in his yard on Saturday.
Did not even make the news.
Seems to be more common than I was aware.

Be careful out there, the sky is falling!