'We all felt a kind of a bump, jolt': Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from DIA
www.denver7.com
An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday.

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  • article title update, bump not bomb jolt’
  • added comma

DENVER — An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday morning.

The Houston-bound Southwest flight took off from DIA around 7:45 a.m., and returned to the airport 30 minutes later, landing safely. No injuries were reported.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
    391·
    6 months ago

    Some quick googling got me the details.

    1. The article mentions the flight number.
    2. Since I didn’t know the airline code of Southweast, I googled Southwest and the flight number.
    3. Google flights showed me the full flight number.
    4. Putting that into Flightradar got me a list of the last flights of this flight, one showing a deviation.
    5. Going in there gave me the registration number of the plane that flew that flight and data about the type of plane.
    6. Searching FAA registry gave me all details of the plane.

    It is a Boeing 737-8H4, delivered in 2015, so an alomst decade old plane, meaning it was probably an issue with maintenance this time.

    Doesn’t mean I would fly a Boeing plane untill the stop dicking around.