'We all felt a kind of a bump, jolt': Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from DIA
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An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday.

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  • article title update, bump not bomb jolt’
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DENVER — An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday morning.

The Houston-bound Southwest flight took off from DIA around 7:45 a.m., and returned to the airport 30 minutes later, landing safely. No injuries were reported.

  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    7 months ago

    I get it. And I’m probably an oddball with being fascinated about flying even before I started traveling for work. Now it’s something I do for fun to track planes I’ll be on.

    So to me the only thing that’s changed recently is the news getting clicks running any story they can about Boeing. They could have been for years if they wanted to. But it’s one of the current hot topics now.

    And even now the news should be shitting on the airlines directly much moreso than Boeing. All issues I’ve heard of since the door blowout would have been a maintenance problem. Especially United. It seems like those fuckers in particular have cut corners. I avoid them in general when booking regardless of plane type.