Boeing 737 Hail Damage

[J0hnny]

I wonder if the turbine blades handled that hail. Man, it must have been solid chunks of iceballs that they were flying through.

I've seen test videos where they shoot birds into the engines and nothing happens to the engine.

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: klod
Amazing that the engines survived. I've seen video here at work of the engines ingesting a lot of stuff and they continue to function. But if a large hail stone had knocked off a blade or two... wow.

I want to see! Post the vids!

Dan

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: klod
Amazing that the engines survived. I've seen video here at work of the engines ingesting a lot of stuff and they continue to function. But if a large hail stone had knocked off a blade or two... wow.

Agreed. Those turbines really can go through Hell and keep on burnin. Impressive to say the least.

I have read that they test for bird ingestion by firing dead chickens into the turbines at a couple hundred miles per hour. they also blast ice sheets into them, and shoot massive amounts of water in for hours on end. it's incredible how strong those blades are.

 

[joecool]

holly s***!!! is there a news article about this anywhere? that's incredible!

 

[moonshinemadness]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Damn....I bet the people on that flight were thinking WTF? I know I would have probably been on the brown shorts express if that had happened to a flight I was on.

Feel for the pilot, especially when it smashed the glass Jeez!

 

[rudder]

There is a reason that radar is installed on those airplanes. I guess the pilots hadn't figured how to turn it on.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I F***ing HATE hail.

 

[klod]

Originally posted by: joecool
holly s***!!! is there a news article about this anywhere? that's incredible!

Flight International 08/26/03

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: rudder
There is a reason that radar is installed on those airplanes. I guess the pilots hadn't figured how to turn it on.

Maybe, but they might not have had time. It was only a few minutes into the flight.

 

[Buttzilla]

PROTECT THE STEWARDIST!

 

[Ness]

if there are holes in the cockpit glass, doesn't that mean that the cockpit would have depressurized and ripped the rest of the glass to pieces?

Or have a just seen too many movies?

 

[Ime]

I bet the inside of that plane needed a deep cleaning after that!

They probably needed to replace most of the seats!

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: ness1469
if there are holes in the cockpit glass, doesn't that mean that the cockpit would have depressurized and ripped the rest of the glass to pieces?

Or have a just seen too many movies?

below 6000' or so the cabin isn't pressurized yet so it probably wasn't an issue. broken cockpit windows will create massive drag though. in a small plane like a cessna a broken front window can make the aircraft nearly unflyable.

 

[joecool]

Originally posted by: Buttzilla
PROTECT THE STEWARDIST!

that's STEWARDESS, actually!

 

[Lucky]

article

 

[Corporate Thug]

Pwned

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

If i was on that plane I would of been sh!tting in the barf bag.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: klod
Amazing that the engines survived. I've seen video here at work of the engines ingesting a lot of stuff and they continue to function. But if a large hail stone had knocked off a blade or two... wow.

I wonder if the blades were spinning fast enough to chop that hail into slush???

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: klod
Amazing that the engines survived. I've seen video here at work of the engines ingesting a lot of stuff and they continue to function. But if a large hail stone had knocked off a blade or two... wow.

I wonder if the blades were spinning fast enough to chop that hail into slush???

hmm,kinda like a Zamboni,type idea?

Glad they got back ok,\
can buy another plane,or fix that one!.

 

[ElFenix]

i wouldn't have liked to have been on that flight

 

[Pastfinder]

Whoa...now I can't wait to go to pilot training...

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wouldn't have liked to have been on that flight

NO SH!T.

 

[datdamkid]

damn yo thats crazy...

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wouldn't have liked to have been on that flight

But now that you know everyone got out fine, arent you a bit curious what it was like iniside during the hail storm?

 

[Eli]

Wow, that's amazing. :Q

I've seen pics of planes after being hit by birds. They really get dented up.

The turbines spin at what... 45,000RPM(out of my ass guess)?

That should be enough to chop just about anything up.. lol

I doubt the engine is unharmed though. They probably have to give it a good gothrough after something gets ingested.. especially something like a bird..

LOL!

Mechanic: "John, your engine smells like grilled chicken.."

Pilot: "Yeah... I hit a flock of geese a while back..."