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So the Engine fell off? Is it supposed to do that?
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
A wave? At sea?
Well. Chance in a million.
It was towed outside of the environment.
It isn't completely atypical...
Look at American Airlines 191, a DC-10 also had its engine torn off during take off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191
It may even run in the family.
Well, there are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that MD-11s aren’t safe.
Was this MD-11 safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
True, 707 had a bunch of engine loses (Braniff test flight and Kabo 671 from top of my head) and 747 had a couple since they share pylon designs (El Al 1862 comes to mind). One was due to unseen cracks in the pylons and other in fuse pins, so maybe history decided to rhyme here.
Well, some of them are built so that the engine doesn’t fall off at all.
I usually laugh at these. This one doesn't work well. They didn't have an idea they were trouble until the plane started turning and sinking, which was only a few seconds after this.