[HN Gopher] 'It just blew fire': Kauai woman watched as an engin... ___________________________________________________________________ '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"? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-21 23:00 UTC)