NTSB Investigative Hearing : CFM International engine failure on Southwest Airlines flight 1380

[@daveg5520]

The NTSB is one of the finest most honorable organizations we have in the US

[@praveengupta9114]

I love the level of detail in these hearings. You guys are why flying remains one of the safest modes of transport

[@deeremeyer1749]

The NTSB has absolutely nothing to do with aviation safety and has no regulatory or any other authority to control a single thing in commercial, general or military aviation. And this hearing is proof that either those board members are as stupid as you are and ignorant of their own "job" and "role" in an "accident investigation" since they seem to think they're working for the FAA just like you must confuse the two agencies OR your disgustingly patronizing but hilariously pathetic comment was made to "spin" the confusion they must have over their role and their complete failure to conduct a real investigation of any kind if they don't even know the history of the CF56 "failures" and the ADs etc which they could easily find right on the FAA website and shouldn't need FAA employees to explain to them like little children.

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

DEEREMEYER1 • You might want to chillax and then come back and make a clear argument, instead of the attack on the above respondent. If you cannot, then maybe you might be one of those deep state people whose lie is cracking and exposing those for liars and clowns (the illegitimate Mueller fiasco) who would wish to take down President Trump, thus taking down America. So come back and join us if you’re not one of those swamp people I described.

[@othername1000]

What would the ntsb think if an airline waited until 13:25 minutes into a flight to make safety announcements?

[@rafaeloda]

LOL.

[@hohotaiwei]

Great video, thanks to NTSB for your transparent approach to the general public

[@docholliday6635]

Yes really bad unfortunate happenings. God bless those people who tried to help Jennifer. It was a really freak accident. Terrible.

[@daviddelaet8116]

Your always going to have occasional catastrophic failures. Titanium or stainless steel or list your material is eventually going to fail. Even if you tore down every engine, after use, x-rayd, penetrant inspected every part, something would go unseen. I've made aerospace parts a good part of my life, starting with the Rolls Royce RB 211 turbo fan in the 80s. The kind of stress those engines are under, it's impossible to catch everything. Part of life folks. R.I.P. To the people over the years that have died in aircraft accidents.

[@MikeF1189]

I think Mark Habedank could do a killer Jack Nicholson impression.

[@tomibach9712]

HAHAHAHAHA true that

[@jenniferkeenan4599]

She is so fierce!

[@prof2yousmithe444]

Sounds as if the pilot and co-pilot were not at fault, in the least, for this accident. I am still praying for that woman's family. I cannot imagine what she went through! WHoly Cow! Can you imagine being sucked out of the aircraft and then getting hit with part of the engine that disintegrated right in front of her? I cannot imagine what she went through. God bless her and her family!

[@Taydrum]

She was pretty instantaneously killed by the debris impact... IE She didn't know what hit her

[@cathys1823]

Thank you Captain Tammi Jo SHULTS her Co Pilot , and crew. GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD BE ALL WITH YOU!

[@Stepclimb]

His name is Darren Ellisor. He was the pilot flying when the mishap occurred. He is now a Captain at SWA.

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

God bless both Captains Shults and Ellisor! They are why we fly. 😊✈️

[@jonarmedpiandsecurityoffic9051]

Very informative, my only thing is the material the secondary containment is made out of is aluminum, not a very flexible material and very brittle (atleast with my experience with it)

[@deeremeyer1749]

You must have very little experience with aluminum since its as "soft" and "flexible" as common non-ferrous metals used daily for everything from beverage cans to wiring to aluminum foil get and is about as "brittle" as your head is "soft" if you have any experience with aluminum and aren't mistaking some other metal for aluminum or vice versa. Like stainless steel, for example.

[@jonarmedpiandsecurityoffic9051]

My experience with aluminum goes towards Bradley fighting vehicles and aluminum blocks on f150s

[@molnez]

@@jonarmedpiandsecurityoffic9051 Aluminium comes in a wide variety of alloys, and depending on the alloy it can be hardened to a point where it will fracture in a brittle fashion. This will be true for alloys that require high stiffness, and probably is not subject to significant cyclic loading compared to the strength of the part. My bet is that the secondary containment is made from an alloy that maximizes the toughness of the material. Toughness is a measure of how much energy a material can absorb before fracturing.

[@tomclark6271]

I would tend to agree, specifically cast aluminum is inherently more brittle than sheet aluminum, without the toughness of forged aluminum. These turbine engines utilize machined aluminum castings that can be penetrated by many high velocity objects. Adding titanium plates or ballistic fabric blankets sounds reasonable on the face of it. However, they might take a lesson from NASA and how they protect spacecraft from meteorite and space junk collisions. They use a layered approach of several layers of aluminum skins. The outer layer is usually not enough to stop the projectile but it does tend to slow it and to break it up into smaller pieces having less mass. Less mass at a slower velocity equals less energy. The subsequent layers each slow and disrupt the projectile to the point where it is rendered not a factor without breaching the hull.

[@fyrman9092]

I was under the impression that engines had a Kevlar containment wrap for blade off incidents. Maybe that is on the larger engines. Still the main rotors do separate, thankfully with a low incidence. Fortunately this blade off did not cripple the plane like it did with UA 232.

[@docholliday6635]

There talking alot about fan blades. I heard it was a cowling latch that struck Jennifer.

[@tomibach9712]

it was a fan blade failure that precipitated the whole event

[@kevincallaghan3212]

When wil final report be out does anybody know please????

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Generally about 18 months after the incident.

[@kevincallaghan3212]

@@UncleKennysPlace thank you

[@tomclark6271]

How does it come to be that the official certification FBO test is literally carried out in a vacuum with no regard for aerodynamics? It's the one and only practical test that certification is based on. AND... that test is only concerned with blade containment immediately tangential to the fan disk, and discounts any effect on surrounding structures like the intake and cowling departing the formation and killing someone. To me, these engineers are the over educated children of mothers who wanted them to be lawyers. Where is their common sense and humanity?

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

Tom Clark • Did they not answer your question? And I certainly hope you were tongue-in-cheek when you were referring to mothers. If not, you might ask yourself where YOUR humanity is.

[@RaivoltG]

How appropriate is Christopher Spinney's name, for his line of work!! There are a few great names: Budinski, Syb(e)org!

[@ThePaulooza]

I'm too drunk for this... TLDR?? Thanks in advance ;) *Edit* 1.75 speed fixed it!... Still drunk :)

[@Tadesan]

Bella always uses her sexy voice.

[@fritzkatz]

From 3:40:30 that singsong 100% script-reading drone of Bell Dinh-Zarr (possibly related to Asiani flight 214 copilot Bang-Ding Ow?) could put a meth moron to sleep. Look at poor Officer Muldoon (Fred Gwynne) behind her fight to keep his eyes open until the ending gavel wakes him up

[@gregculverwell]

No wonder these kind of accidents keep happening - no one learns anything because all the participants fall asleep part of way through. Bureaucracy in action!

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

This is but one example of what’s great about the United States of America - government transparency. Socialists - get lost! THIS is what normal, thinking, smart and common-sense Americans want. TRUMP 2020 for government transparency!

[@asiaexpat62]

How stupid, Trump is for exactly the opposite in government and he has demonstrated this consistently. Wake up! Anyway, politics are not a part of the NTSB.

[@GH-oi2jf]

gomphrena - Injecting your politics into this is really stupid. The strength of the NTSB is that they are a completely nonpartisan operation. They mission is limited to getting the facts and making technical recommendations.

[@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043]

GH1618 • And so what did I just say? Perhaps you misunderstood. Do you know what “government transparency” refers to? I’m sure you have Google on your phone by now.

[@TheNemosdaddy]

You understand they are an independent organization of the government, right? Yes they are government funded, but politically neutral. FAA would be the government agency overseeing this. If your great fascist Fueher 45 would have it, these organizations wouldn't exist. He's about being a crook and hiding everything. Yes, so much for transparency, but refuses to show his tax returns even after a congressional subpoena.

[@rafaeloda]

@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 he directly interfered in several investigations. Plus neatly cheated his taxes, if he really was transparent he would authorize and order an IRS audit in every single one of his and his family's business.

[@mtio2807]

Looks like a klan meeting