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Wow! The compressor section exploded! Yikes! :eek:
 
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Nice photos. I used to live on the first row of houses facing the North runway at LAX(designated 24R or 25R, I forget......been so long since I used my scanner). Time to time I would hear the various airlines running their static tests(mostly Fedex and American). That would have been an interesting thing to hear.

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ouch. being an aircraft structural guy, that would suck to fix! I have had to fix some pretty crazy damage, (like our C-130 that has 27" cracks in the center wing box and both main landing gear beams cracked completely in half among a host of other damage... gonna be fun fixing that if it doesn't go to the boneyard), but i can't even imagine where to start on that plane.
 
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You just have to imagine the cost of the composites alone has got to be an arm and a leg. But then again, there is probably lots of '67's in bone yards in the deserts somewhere. The fuel leaks is what scares me the most. I can only laugh when I speculate the radio call to the supervisors after the explosion telling them that not only 1 engine is dead, but that the other had a failure as well. The engine overhaul shop will be sitting on pins and needles for awhile. Daren
 
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And people wonder why some folks jump out of "perfectly good" airplanes.....................:)
 
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troposcuba said:
ouch. being an aircraft structural guy, that would suck to fix! I have had to fix some pretty crazy damage, (like our C-130 that has 27" cracks in the center wing box and both main landing gear beams cracked completely in half among a host of other damage... gonna be fun fixing that if it doesn't go to the boneyard), but i can't even imagine where to start on that plane.
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Depending on the extent of the damage and the temperatures reached by the fire, they may end up scrapping the entire aircraft. All the composites back there along with the rear spar, it might cost more to fix than the plane is worth. I'm concerned about what effect the heat had on the heat treated metal skin and wing structures.
 
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Anytime we do runs, I am not near the engine. For leak checks we use spot developer, then go back to the engine when its stopped. Very rarely do we need to go to the engine when its running. The spot developer is great stuff, dries almost instantly, washes off with any hint of leak, and just about any aerosol cleaner removes it. Daren
 
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Randy Mosier said:
Depending on the extent of the damage and the temperatures reached by the fire, they may end up scrapping the entire aircraft. All the composites back there along with the rear spar, it might cost more to fix than the plane is worth. I'm concerned about what effect the heat had on the heat treated metal skin and wing structures.
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i hear ya, but then again if it is mostly wing damage, (dunno about civilian maintenance) it is not that big a deal to just drop the wing and either refurb it or put up a new one. as far as the composites go, they are done, no doubt, but that stuff can all be yanked off and replaced. but i have seen jets go to the boneyard for lots less damage than that.
 
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ROBC said:
It looks like the plane John Lithgow got out of in the Twilight Zone movie.Anyone remember that one?
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Sure do - he played that scared to death air traveler who saw the munchkin running around pulling parts off the plane flying in the storm. Same movie Vic Morrow was killed filming in the Vietnam part...
 
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Randy Mosier said:
Depending on the extent of the damage and the temperatures reached by the fire, they may end up scrapping the entire aircraft. All the composites back there along with the rear spar, it might cost more to fix than the plane is worth. I'm concerned about what effect the heat had on the heat treated metal skin and wing structures.
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Randy's right.
We recently heard that AA scrapped that 67.
 
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The official statement...
"During maintenance engine run up, the high pressure turbine was liberated from the #1 (left) engine main shaft. It broke into three pieces; one piece cut the keel beam and is now protruding from the #2 engine exhaust area; another piece was found 3000 feet away. As you can see from the pictures it’s a total hull loss, glad it happened during maintenance."
 
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