Been seeing reports that the left engine completely detached on the takeoff roll? Concerningly similar to American Airlines Flight 191 (for the non runway freaks, the MD-11 is basically a beefed up/modernized/improved DC-10)**
To me, It looked more like an uncontained failure than a detachment. Notice how it doesnt roll or climb. 191 had the thrust to climb but was pushed over in roll and also made it higher before becoming unrecoverable. This didn’t even make 200 feet.
A speculation may be that the components that feed fuel to the #2 motor may have been damaged in whatever caused the fire on the left wing, and (by my guestimation) pretty certain a single engine is not enough to maintain climb when youre full of cargo and fuel.
Been seeing reports that the left engine completely detached on the takeoff roll? Concerningly similar to American Airlines Flight 191 (for the non runway freaks, the MD-11 is basically a beefed up/modernized/improved DC-10)**
The link posted by bigpharma seems to show a white thing left on the runway, but I cant tell what it is. Could be an engine.
To me, It looked more like an uncontained failure than a detachment. Notice how it doesnt roll or climb. 191 had the thrust to climb but was pushed over in roll and also made it higher before becoming unrecoverable. This didn’t even make 200 feet.
A speculation may be that the components that feed fuel to the #2 motor may have been damaged in whatever caused the fire on the left wing, and (by my guestimation) pretty certain a single engine is not enough to maintain climb when youre full of cargo and fuel.