China Eastern flight #MU736 to Shanghai has safely landed in Sydney. Vacated at foxtrot and being followed by fire services.
Indeed it is.From what I can see of the images, the fan looks to be ok. I wonder if it was something to do with the anti ice ducting around the engine. There have been a couple of unusual failures involving that over the past year or so, on various types and engines.
The ATC tape is quite funny. I know what I think he's saying, but it so sounds like "engine #1 fooked".
I don't recall hearing anything out of the ordinary and I am under the flight path for 34 - at about 1,200 feet.
I was thinking with that damage and a fan failure, there would have to be some shredded fuselage to go with it, and we'd be reading a whole different story.
Looks like the actual engine casing is made of sterner stuff and that's the bit beginning at a more or less straight edge after the missing chunks?
I'm guessing that some of those chunks would have gone through the engine, possibly causing a bit more internal damage than the average seagull.
I actually think the audio highlighted how calm the captain remained.....he clearly said "fault" but I guess some like to poke fun at his accent.
Very grateful to jb747 for pointing out that it's not quite as bad as it looks!When you start to look, there's quite a history of this sort of failure....View attachment 99168
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I actually think the audio highlighted how calm the captain remained.....he clearly said "fault" but I guess some like to poke fun at his accent.