Hmm inlet came apart. Look at the aluminum honeycomb composite. Looks like the engine compressor fan is intact, though i bet the inlet chunks FODDed the engine out.
Yep thats the big problem with composites. They dont give any failure warning indications until they let go. But when they let go its usually a pretty big failure.
Pilots train intensively for one engine landings, and twin engined airliners are rated with enough thrust to climb out and maintain flight with 1 engine inop.
However losing an inlet like that i bet that ***** was constantly trying to yaw hard to the left.
I work on em, but i dont fly on em. TSA sucks is the main reason why. A number of years ago right after 9/11, an America Airlines airbus went down. The NTSB ruled out terrorism, and attributed the crash to the pilots doing a rudder hard over in flight. This was a severe over extension of the rudder flight surface into the wind stream. It over stressed the composite and ripped the rudder off the aircraft. I dont remember exactly what caused them to over extend the rudder like that, it could have been a failure of the AFU, "artificial feel unit" this allows artificial feel into the cockpit controls that you dont normally have with hydraulically assisted flight controls making the controls harder to move the farther you deflect them. Thus adding "feel" to them.
Think power steering and manual steering. Manual steering gives you more feedback, power steering is numb and isolated. Moving flight controls would be impossible on large airliners without power assist, however it takes all the feel out. The AFU adds it back.
