AA Engine failure at LAX...

[.Blueskies.]

....during ground test apparently...

http://flickr.com/photos/lafd/sets/72157594153722446/show

[FLAV8R]

".Blueskies." wrote in message ...
> ...during ground test apparently...
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/lafd/sets/72157594153722446/show
>
Wow! Good thing it happened on the ground.

David -

[Denny]

See Ollie, I've told ya a dozen times before you do the bird test ya
gotta THAW the damn chicken first...

denny

[Morgans]

"Robert M. Gary" > wrote
>
> Actually, I don't think it was an engine failure in the sense that
> might be implied. I believe maintenance was running the engine up after
> maintenance and something wasn't connected correctly in the fuel line
> and a fire start.

Look more closely.

The fire probably didn't start until......
a hot engine part sliced through a fuel line at several hundred miles per
hour, from an uncontained catastrophic engine failure.

In layman's terms, the engine came apart, in a big way! <g>

You can see slices in the wing and fuselage, with engine blades still
sticking out of some of them.
--
Jim in NC