[HN Gopher] 'It just blew fire': Kauai woman watched as an engin...
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       'It just blew fire': Kauai woman watched as an engine fell apart on
       flight 328
        
       Author : lightlyused
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-02-21 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
        
       | xwdv wrote:
       | Meh, a plane can fly with one engine, and glide with none. I
       | wouldn't be too worried, unless it blew up and took out a wing.
       | And even if they were flying over the pacific, planes are
       | required to be within a certain distance of land at all times.
       | Probably enough to get to an airport.
       | 
       | Edit: I don't get the downvotes. It's true.
        
         | blunte wrote:
         | The downvotes begin from "meh". Many of these people reasonably
         | thought they would die.
         | 
         | What you so casually dismiss could have been a tragic story if
         | only one more failure had occurred.
        
       | izgzhen wrote:
       | I definitely can't be calm and shooting video like this. For me,
       | a plane flight is a totally magical blackbox, in which I just get
       | onboard, sit, lay back, and done. Maybe I should be more
       | informed.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
       | 
       |  _United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates
       | from engine_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26208555 -
       | Feb 2021 (448 comments)
        
       | cointreau wrote:
       | I saw a video someone took out the window of the flaming engine.
       | It was unsettlingly quiet; no one talking or screaming, just the
       | background plane noise.
       | 
       | I cannot imagine seeing an engine on fire outside your window and
       | being that calm. Just incredible.
        
         | sschueller wrote:
         | That's most likely because the plane itself was flying stable
         | and the pilot informed the passengers well. It not having a
         | direct impact on the perceived flight characteristics in the
         | passenger compartment removes it from you in a way.
         | 
         | I've been on turbulent fligts before where people where
         | screeming but the plane was perfectly fine.
        
         | dehrmann wrote:
         | I went on a ride in a jet trainer. The most relevant safety
         | instructions I got were "the only time we bail is if there's an
         | engine fire I can't put out. If I can put it out, we'll glide
         | to an airstrip--this plane is an excellent glider." I have no
         | idea how people who haven't been briefed on engine fires would
         | deal with one.
        
       | ubersync wrote:
       | How does the gender of the person who watched/recorded this
       | matter so much that the author had to put it in the title?
        
         | romski wrote:
         | How does the island residency of the person matter so much
         | either.
        
           | young_unixer wrote:
           | How does the flight number matter so much either.
        
           | dehrmann wrote:
           | Local news always reports this.
        
             | evgen wrote:
             | I am surprised they did not manage to put her age in the
             | headline, hometown, gender, and age seem to be the common
             | ID for small newspapers.
        
           | stefan_ wrote:
           | It's HawaiiNewsNow and _they are having a fucking interview
           | with her_. What 's wrong with you people?
           | 
           | The title is her introduction!
        
             | cjbenedikt wrote:
             | Agreed, the discussions on HN are getting ever more
             | ridiculous.
        
         | dehrmann wrote:
         | I guess it doesn't, but it is useful for English pronouns later
         | on. I'm curios what's idiomatic in languages without gendered
         | pronouns. It'd be different if it called out her race.
         | 
         | Also, "Florida man" is a meme.
        
         | ysavir wrote:
         | It doesn't matter to the content, but generally speaking,
         | adding specificity to a story makes it sound more real and
         | immediate to a general audience.
        
         | true_religion wrote:
         | Titles are kind of about enticing readers while explicitly not
         | giving away information that matters a lot.
         | 
         | So in this case the island name, gender, and flight number are
         | all just part of the tease.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | " _Eschew flamebait. Don 't introduce flamewar topics unless
         | you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated
         | controversies and generic tangents._"
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | yuppie_scum wrote:
         | Relax, francis
        
         | midasuni wrote:
         | Would you write "person" instead?
        
           | PartiallyTyped wrote:
           | > 'It just blew fire': A passenger watched as an engine fell
           | apart on flight 328
        
           | ubersync wrote:
           | How about "a passenger"?
        
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