A wee distraction I know from the forum but something I think you might be interested in seeing. A hard landing on this DC-9 darn near knocked the engines off the jet. Scroll down the page and have a peek at the pictures. Quite a sight. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/aeropostal-dc95-hard-landing_n_983781.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Caim%7Cdl22%7Csec3_lnk3%7C99866

That oughta buff right out... :/

Well if you'd put engines on the wing where they belong...

Holy Crap! Now that, I've never seen. Embarrassing...

You would have thought that the landing gear would have given out before the engines fell off !!! G

First, that's definitely one for the WOW book. Second, I'm a bit confused on the media's report. It says the aircraft made an emergency landing after a partial rupture of the two engines. Then it says the engines fell off due to the hard landing. Wouldn't it be that the engines fell off because of the initial rupture and the landing (may not have really been that hard) just added enough stress for them to break off? I'm only saying because if the landing had been the actual cause of the engines falling off then they wouldn't have been making an emergency landing...... *sigh* this is what happens when the media gets a hold of aviation incidents....they mess it all up.

Yup, some confusion on the terminology in the report. I think it was an attempt at a normal landing that became an emergency landing after it was slammed onto the deck and left the thing with two engines flapping around that would have still been developing reverse thrust LOL In any case, it's either incredibly badly maintained with some missing retaining bolts, or an incredibly bad landing to have something like that happen. I'm pretty sure that'll be a write off looking at the fuselage damage, although of course many parts will be salvagable, but even so, unless the flight deck crew have got about nine million quid between them to buy the airliner owners a replacement DC-9, I should think that's their careers over. Al

Ouch!

That looks like one of my landings.

JBZ you got it right.

Now that you mention it, DC-9s tend to break at the aft bulk head on the fuselage with hard landings. Tail section, engines, and all. Hmm.

LOL..do you think getting up in the pilots face and abruptly shouting ''NOOB!'', is going a bit far? :( Atleast everyone was ok, allowing us to joke about it :-)

LOL..do you think getting up in the pilots face and abruptly shouting ''NOOB!'', is going a bit far? Atleast everyone was ok, allowing us to joke about it :-)

Without knowing all of the facts, I'd hesitate to definitely blame the crew, there is the possibility it might have been a maintenance issue (I doubt it, but it is possible), after all, it wouldn't be the first time an engine has fallen off an aeroplane because some bolts were put on wrong or badly fitted with a dodgy procedure, such as the guys who thought it would be okay to use a fork lift truck to lift the engine onto the DC-10 that was American Airlines Flight 191, damaging and fatally weakening the engine mountings in the process. Al

Hopefully we'll find out soon.

Without knowing all of the facts, I'd hesitate to definitely blame the crew, there is the possibility it might have been a maintenance issue (I doubt it, but it is possible), after all, it wouldn't be the first time an engine has fallen off an aeroplane because some bolts were put on wrong or badly fitted with a dodgy procedure, such as the guys who thought it would be okay to use a fork lift truck to lift the engine onto the DC-10 that was American Airlines Flight 191, damaging and fatally weakening the engine mountings in the process. Al

Bless their souls.