Originally Posted By: FowVay
The fan blade may have been ingested into the engine but upon initial liberation it most likely pulled forward and did the damage to the inlet cowling. The inlet (referred to as the nose cowl) cowling then came apart and caused the fuselage damage and ultimately broke the window.
I don't agree the light weight titanium blade upon liberation from its
power source possessed sufficient energy to inch its way forward
against the on rush of incoming air and hack repeatedly at inlet
cowl... I think the blade separated and collided with its neighbors
before ultimately ingested back into the engine just the way engineers
designed it and test video proves it...
Originally Posted By: FowVay
I feel that this is what damaged/weakened the nose cowl and vibrational forces and high speed air did the rest.
I agree... the real culprit was the non stop vibrational forces and
the resulting slip stream... true the engine shook its self to
destruction and debris damaged the aircraft fuselage, wing and
empennage, and the passenger interior compartment was penetrated but
its deceptive for the media to say the engine exploded...
The fan blade may have been ingested into the engine but upon initial liberation it most likely pulled forward and did the damage to the inlet cowling. The inlet (referred to as the nose cowl) cowling then came apart and caused the fuselage damage and ultimately broke the window.
I don't agree the light weight titanium blade upon liberation from its
power source possessed sufficient energy to inch its way forward
against the on rush of incoming air and hack repeatedly at inlet
cowl... I think the blade separated and collided with its neighbors
before ultimately ingested back into the engine just the way engineers
designed it and test video proves it...
Originally Posted By: FowVay
I feel that this is what damaged/weakened the nose cowl and vibrational forces and high speed air did the rest.
I agree... the real culprit was the non stop vibrational forces and
the resulting slip stream... true the engine shook its self to
destruction and debris damaged the aircraft fuselage, wing and
empennage, and the passenger interior compartment was penetrated but
its deceptive for the media to say the engine exploded...
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