Airplane DROPS LARGE ENGINE PARTS ON TAKEOFF | Emergency Return to Bradley 

Thanks, know my curiosity was peaked until I saw your comment!

Why was maintenance so afraid of saying what it was on frequency? They're hiding something

@@JimNortonsAlcoholism I have to assume they didn't want to panic anyone before the plane got back on the ground!

​@@frednewman2162who's getting panicked because of an engine cowling? This is a cover up.

Maybe it’s a cover up of a cover up!!

lmao

LOL

"Would you like it gift-wrapped?"

😂😂😂

rofl

.. you think any pilot is not going to say there was debris on the runway?

@@craig7350 I think you need to fix something in your life if you're gonna have a sassy remark to a positive comment.

@@craig7350situational awareness is not doled out evenly.

Jet Blue /AIRBUS... American Air/Boeing!

@@johnwilliam8366Your brain is as smooth as a sheet of paper

Yes, indeed.🙂👍

Airline pilots treat each other like a big ole family - if one is in trouble, the others will want to know if they’re okay! Kudos to the American pilot for asking about his United counterpart

He’s a fellow human and pilot, of course he would. It’s not like competing airlines are rivals or something.

isnt it kind of one of their business like world the tower actually updated them on their status rathr then just say good now fuck off

I guess they're not overweight anymore. 🤣

Back when I was a very amateur skier, that was called a "yard sale".

@@KennethAGrimm Wow, that's a term I haven't heard in a long time. Yup... totally a yard sale! 🤣

Folks, aircraft are tested to land at their maximum takeoff weight even if they have a lower maximum landing weight. They have to be tested to ensure that if a situation like this arises, they can safely land and brake and stop on the remaining runway. Often all that is required is a overweight landing inspection. While it is not optimal to land over max landing weight, it can and is done safely when an abnormal or emergency situation arises that has higher priority than the 'maximum landing weight.'

@@charliealpha11f3b2 That was a perfectly good explanation that you wasted on me.

"I thought you did it?"

...as Mechanic 2 rattles bolts around nervously in his pocket...

He was a good mechanic! He never had a customer make it back to complain!

In the case of Boeing: Mechanic 1: You got those bolts tightened up? Mechanic 2: I'm a manager in HR. Mechanic 3: I'm also a manager in HR.

It’s a scary time right now..not many people want to work they just want to tap on their phones. I had employees say “l can get fired and then collect unemployment.” A few of them couldn’t care less about you or your plane. It’s really bad.

No he’s just another self important douchebag airside employee

Exactly ! Dead guy parts on runway …. Oh Dear - 😢 what the hell is it ?

Good ATC ! Very good - Nice to hear .

Hah same here.

My first thought was something like the most vital part of the engine or the device that prevent the engine from becoming a bomb or something like that. When they refused to do the lowpass, i knew it was something like a door-plug or a wheel with the Boing logo on it. Now I'm thinking just an Airbus piece of fuselage, but it has Boing fingerprints of sabotage on it. Or Boing explosive residue. Sth like that. A piece of engine cowling with a Boing axe stuck on it.

The coincidence of them declaring right after that... interesting.

@@persistentwindjust makes sense. Already got an issue, reports of fod. Doing it by the book. Also could have had a report from flight attendant by that stage.

They were on different frequencies.

It would be nice to know, what kind of part numbers. High EGT, turbine blades? Compressor blades, or remains of? I wish we got the whole story after this.

@@JAMESWUERTELE it’s only just happened. I’m sure details will come out eventually.

Part of the training, a calm voice, even if the control tower is on fire, and you are being cooked in the chair.

BDL is my home airport, it's about as mellow as a Northeast airport can get. No NYC-area hyper-agro energy, no BOS perpetual hair-pulling.

I’ve been in the Bradley tower before super cool. Got like a special tour with my flight instructor while doing general aviation when I was young. The People were very nice.

@user-yi3yx2fn7g compare that to the voices at JFK 😂😂

His voice is so silky smooth. It’s like eating the finest chocolate.

I got that reference. My great uncle said something like this from when he was working with the 'Yanks' in Korea (even to his dying day he called all Americans 'Yanks' not out of hate, just what he learned in Germany and Europe). He wasn't a pilot or anything but did something around the air bases. He heard it off one of the American officers when and told me about it. I got the idea he didn't do much in Korea. Wouldn't talk about Germany or Europe, but talked and even laughed about things in his time in Korea. How Americans loved to trade for Australian rations. He thought it was a 'real hoot' when ever he tricked a yank to eat a spoon full of vegemite. Just thinking about how he would be bent over laughing makes me smile now.

@@BabyMakR For what it's worth, Americans don't generally find the term 'Yanks' or 'Yankees' offensive, especially when used by people from other countries. Seems to still be used pretty commonly by the British. The only times I can think of when an American might find the term offensive is if another American calls someone from the South that (when used by Americans in the South, the term normally refers to Americans from the Northeast) or if the person is a fan of the Boston Red Sox (arch-rivals of the New York Yankees. - haha)

@@vbscript2 Moreover, Americans have developed an innate ability to ignore the haters even when they do mean Yanks, or any other term, in a derogatory way. I'm not sure if that's from being at the top for a long time, or if it's American optimism, that drives it, but it's kind of funny that other countries' people believe that they can insult Americans worse than Americans insult themselves / each-other.

be that calm pilot from way before who had the engine fire but didn't want to declare emergency :P

This video is hilarious.

@@653j521 how?

"Yes, we have your gate. We also have your right-side engine cowling, a cargo door, and half a shredded tire."

When they have three bald tires with wires showing and the fourth one wobbles all over, and the car is leaking three different fluids but they insist they only want an oil change

Or the kids fall out....

Exactly. Isn't the "company" ran by a dragqueen who hires based on demographics?

Isn't this the same company that had a door fall off when departing PDX about three months ago?

@@whiskeymonk4085 The door over PDX was a Boeing 737 operated by Alaska Airlines. This was an Airbus A321 operated by United.

Didn't the part that destroyed that Concorde come from a company that was bought by Boing?

@@jello3456543 Thanks!

My guess is the issue was quite egregious, he likely knows exactly what did/didnt happen.

They didn’t want to say because everyone be like “omg Boeing” etc.

@@MeppyManyeah, or there could easily be passengers on the plane listening lol.

I think the most likely reason is that they didn't want to speculate and then have decisions made based on speculation

@@MeppyMan that's an Airbus

Thank you Capt. Obvious.

They have to say that. The CFR could take it as evidence or for there report.

United. Dragqueen CEO hires based on dei. Not competency. From the "bottom" up.

@@whiskeymonk4085 Stop with the bashing. Personnel attitudes have changed in all industries since the pandemic. I've found quality issues in lots of thigs that were 100% prior.

@@mro4440 When people start hiring based on merit and competency again I will stop. Until then, NO.

Right - agreed - these engine cowlings must be very expensive + repair labor time .

UAL A320s are not CFM equipped, its the IAE V2500 engines.

Today?

I used to work KC-135's. If it was from a T.E. flap, it had to be a section of it to only be about 60 lbs. A full flap is several hundred, minimum. I hope no one was hurt.

right? if something "fell" off a Boeing, can you imagine the headlines?

@@mtesovicyou mean like a couple months ago? Yeah, I think we can all “ imagine” the headline

@@benchoflemons398ehm, no, currently, if anything goes wrong with a Boeing, even small items on an aircraft made in the 90ies, it guarantees headlines.

This video’s only an hour old. Give it time for the trolls to pickle it up 😂

No kidding!

Why should they?

The Crew Requested It. The CFR and County should be transparent. I have had a Part on Runway Call Before. The CFR could have said a description of the Part. It could make a huge difference. ​@VASAviation

​@@VASAviationwhy wouldn't they

Because it would have been on the news before the plane even made it back to the gate.

I think it was a good call by ground ops, BUT the flight crew has every right to know what part(s) came off their aircraft.

RU-vid videos use audio from amateur radio operator receivers that pick up the radio traffic - they may not be able to pick up audio at the same quality as everyone else involved.

Exactly. And said it before any Boeing issue I can match with Airbus. Mile technically Boeing has had less mishaps compared to Airbus.

The vast majority of Boeing technical incidents have not been reported either, cos the news media only cares about spectacular incidents, and this channel is ATC based, it doesn't analyse the official database for US pilot incident reports. Their ex-employee whistleblowers had been complaining about the trend in US pilot reports to the database about Boeing technical incidents soaring, for months before a couple of the incidents finally started making the news in January. This rise was not paralleled by Airbus.

@@compulsiverambler1352 still, per travelled distance Boeing is safer.

Airbus is vastly safer than Boeing. Boeing has had over 700 fatal incidents and 1300 hull losses. It has had thousands of significant events including less severe incidents. Airbus by contrast has had around 160 fatal incidents and 270 hull losses in total and only hundreds of significant events including less severe incidents. Boeing has gone drastically downhill since its merger with McDonnel Douglas in 1997.

@@johnmknox I’m guessing this number includes military and civilian. I’m also guessing this includes pilot error, hijacking’s, and other incidents. How many aircraft has each company produced. I’m betting Boeing has built significantly more aircraft.

Yes. That was strange.

@@UncleSubBass Speculate between sheet metal and tire? What kind of tires to planes have, these days?

You notice later in the conversations the United pilots speculated that maybe they hit a bird on takeoff. Maybe that's what the ground crew saw and didn't want to say over the frequency, that there was just a gory mess.

LOL

TOO SOON

Boeing has problems as the Boeing space capsule is stuck at the space station with major issues. Come on Boeing can all the upper level administrators now

757 LOL. It would have been good if Boeing had kept producing them instead of building the disastrous and deadly 737-MAX.

If you’re having engine troubles, bring low and slow isn’t the best place to be.

I wondered that too. My presumption: he didn't want the passengers to freak out and/or if they're that close he just wants to land, given they are overweight.

I think the caption is incorrect. The word I hear is "company," not "captain."

Against company policy

The company didn’t want pictures of a crippled airplane in United colors all over social media.

Agreed, it is all about ego. "I am an airline pilot, I can handle anything" (usually it is I used to fly F16's etc. or filibustering while they dream up an excuse why they f*cked up. LOLOL. You do NOT know what damage there is or if you will continue to have a flyable aircraft so declare Mayday.. it is easy to downgrade it

@@mijo3642what nonsense. It wasn’t an emergency until they had more information and had run through their. Checklists. Stop making up stuff based on zero flying experience.

This is real life, not some made for TV movie,

It's paperwork. And you'd rather not do more paperwork until you run chrcklists and make sure of everything.

@@FreshTillDeath56 nope. Mayday first... you don't need paperwork with flightsim though do you?

How can you tell the pilot didn't do it?

@@VASAviation If we are talking about the front cowlings there are overlock fasteners underneath, it is easy to see if they are not flush and the left and right cowlings are hinged at the top. They can be partly fastened holding the cowling flush but, the lever will be sticking out... So, if they were not fully fastened the edge of the cowling will be lift out into in the airflow and the cowling will be ripped off.. the amount of damage to the fasteners when they find the parts will give an indication. Also, the logbook will (should) state if the cowlings were opened at any point by the mx technicians. If you see that or they do something while you are at the gate do not accept the aircraft until you go down and reinspect it even if you have done your walk around. The last line of defense is the pilot walk around. In my informed opinion for it to come loose on take off means it was not secured at all.. The NTSB will know soon enough

​@@VASAviationthe bowls on a A320 and Boeing can False Lock. It looks like and feels like it's locked but its not. You will feel the lock engage. I lock the cowling then relock it with them together to ensure a successful lock.

it was a boeing A320.....MAX

I'm from the area where this happened and I kid you not there were 5 or 10 local news articles using pictures of the 787, the MAX, and even the A220. I'm amazed every day at just how clueless journalism as a collective field is when it comes to aviation

Um, no. These details are crucial for the tower to be able to accomodate whatever the United pilots needed to do. The other two planes are helping prevent more accidents by pointing out the flotsam left on the runway and being patient with everyone. Once the United plane is on the ground, everyone has to make sure the plane has somewhere safe to go and is safe itself to get itself there. The pilots saying they can't do a low pass wasn't about terrifying the passengers. Some airlines actually have company policy that doesn't allow for it to happen. I don't know the reasoning, but that's what the United pilots were saying to Tower. It's definitely not unheard of for pilots in general to make a low pass over an airport/runway to have ground crews look at the plane up close to see if landing gear has lowered or if there is a part missing, then heading back into the sky and figure the next steps out in the air.

@@HeidiKohne please privately send me your commercial pilot license number or ATP. If you don’t have one then just stop talking

@@HeidiKohne did you get my last request?

@@HeidiKohne you do realize that it is extra redundancy to do a low pass in a airbus, especially due to the fact that everything is electronically monitored, including the tire pressure for each tire

@@HeidiKohne please message me your commercial or ATP pilot license then I’ll maybe debate you otherwise Yeah, just another bobble head

Wow, a good intelligent question. Rare here. For many years crews haven’t declared an emergency when they should because they fear recriminations from the FAA or don’t want to stay late to do an hour of paperwork or machismo at work. The airlines have worked hard to change this attitude with significant success. One hears pan-pan or Mayday much more often now. By the way, the pan-pan call is for an urgency rather than emergency. Look up the Avianca Flight 52 707 crash at JFK in 1990. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed because the pilot didn’t want to declare an emergency.

@@davidbeattie1366 Dave; Thanks for the information. That clears up a long standing question for me.

That’s the gist of it.

We are not getting the same audio quality as everyone else. This audio comes from amateur radio operators with receivers that post it to the Internet.

United has 700 aircraft and flies a total of 15,000 flights per day. How many flights have had a problem? Just about every airline has had a cowling depart the engine and serious consequences are rare. They are not a structural part.

pounds remaining is for fire department. time remaining is for controllers to know how long the can keep the aircraft aloft before landing.

If it is not necessary, why would you?

They changed it some time ago. I don't like it and 'souls' is still widely used.

Another woke redefinition

@@m.choudry4898 Please explain how "persons" is more woke than "souls."

"persons on board" is ICAO phraseology

Many reasons

@@VASAviation Sounds to me like they are putting the interests of the company/airline above the interests of the crew/passengers.

Could be that it gets the airplane low and slow over the runway when an engine could fail at any moment, causing a more dangerous situation. Better to keep the aircraft in a stable state with some altitude until you’re ready to shoot the approach to a landing. Just a guess.

@@AndersMcA That a really good guess. That would make sense to me. Thanks for the input I appreciate it