Me and the rest of a full 777, attempted to take off from Newark this morning, and lets just say we are all very lucky it never left the ground!!!
I had a window seat a few rows behind the right wing, i was looking out during takeoff, we hit full throttle, as we were getting close to having enough velocity for the nose to pull up, things started to shudder somehwat violently, and then BOOM, i saw a fireball about the same size as the engine shoot out, essentially right next to me! Followed by a lot of sparks, a whole bunch of shrapnell flying out the back. The entire plane was shuddering violently, we came to a complete stop, and the shake continued. The pilots finally shut off the engines, and we were towed off the runway with a number of firetrucks as an escort.
The engine had a catastrophic failure, and the brakes slowed us down from 150 to a stop, not too far from the end of the runway.
If the engine would've exploded about half a minute later, we would've crashed, guarunteed. I don't know if that counts as almost dying, but it sure as fuck was scary!
I'm sitting here still waiting for our replacement airplane, and then I'll get to endure a 12 hour flight, with lots of anxiety.
I've flown alot, and never had any fears of flight... lets just say that won't be the case anymore!
I had a window seat a few rows behind the right wing, i was looking out during takeoff, we hit full throttle, as we were getting close to having enough velocity for the nose to pull up, things started to shudder somehwat violently, and then BOOM, i saw a fireball about the same size as the engine shoot out, essentially right next to me! Followed by a lot of sparks, a whole bunch of shrapnell flying out the back. The entire plane was shuddering violently, we came to a complete stop, and the shake continued. The pilots finally shut off the engines, and we were towed off the runway with a number of firetrucks as an escort.
The engine had a catastrophic failure, and the brakes slowed us down from 150 to a stop, not too far from the end of the runway.
If the engine would've exploded about half a minute later, we would've crashed, guarunteed. I don't know if that counts as almost dying, but it sure as fuck was scary!
I'm sitting here still waiting for our replacement airplane, and then I'll get to endure a 12 hour flight, with lots of anxiety.
I've flown alot, and never had any fears of flight... lets just say that won't be the case anymore!
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