[HN Gopher] 'It just blew fire': Kauai woman watched as an engin...
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'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"?
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