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Old November 9th 07, 01:33 AM posted to rec.aviation.simulators
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Default This is why pilots train so often

Good thing for those people on board:

(CNN) -- Brendon Pelser said she saw pure terror in the faces of her
fellow passengers after an engine fell from a wing as it took off from
Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday.

Men were sweating profusely, women were crying.

"There was fear on their faces," Pelser said. "Everyone started
panicking."

But the pilot of Nationwide Airlines' Boeing 737 Flight CE723 was able
to fly long enough to dump fuel and make an emergency landing at Cape
Town International Airport.

Including crew, 100 hundred people were on the plane which departed at
3:50 p.m. on an hour-long flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. No one
was injured.

The jet had only been in the air about 10 minutes before the engine
fell.

"We heard something crash and bang, the plane veering left and right.
A person on the right side said the engine was missing -- had broken
clean off," said Pelser. Watch Pelser describe how the flight crew
told passengers to "prepare for the worst" »

"They flew us in very slowly. We were all prepared for the worst. We
went into the fetal position, head between the legs," he said. "Then
we hit the runway."

"I did kind of pray. I didn't want to die. I'm not really ready to
die," the 33-year-old said.

An object had been sucked into the engine as the nose wheel lifted
from the ground and officials are trying to identify it.

The engine-to-wing supporting structure is designed to release an
engine "when extreme forces are applied," to prevent structural damage
to the wing, Nationwide said on its Web site.

The airline described the incident as a "catastrophic engine failure."

As the nose wheel lifted from the ground, "the captain heard a loud
noise immediately followed by a yaw of the aircraft (sideways
slippage) to the right," the airline said in a news release.

The flight instruments showed the No. 2 engine on the right side had
failed, it said.

Pelser said he spent the night in Cape Town, then flew back to
Johannesburg where he lives, on the same airline.


Nationwide said the engine had undergone a major overhaul in March
2005 at "an approved Federal Aviation Authority facility in the
U.S.A." and had flown only 3,806 hours since then.

"These engines typically achieve 10,000 hours between major
overhauls," Nationwide Airlines' press release stated.

 




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