Fan Section News Today

We are using the word shrapnel to discuss what broke out the window and suck someone out of the plane. >> the fan section is rotating at several thousand rpms. and so when that fan blade liberated, it did shrew shrapnel in many different places. this is not an explosion in the sense of like that sort of explosion. but it was what we call by the way inside the fuselage it would have been an explosive decompression of all of that air rushing out of the airplane very quickly. >> i get the differenc...

When you look at the engine, it appears that we had a fan section or a compressor section fail. but im not convinced of that as i look at the damage. so the ntsb is going to go through that engine physically, to see what they can find, what pieces are embedded into the engine and the ones that embedded into the airplane. so theyll look at those and theyll be going to the facility that overallhauled this engine, because when these airplanes go through these repair facilities, many of these parts ...