There's a lot in the way because the turbine section is under the wing. But yeah, with that kind of energy who knows what it would do if it let off in the wrong spot.
Wonder if the crew gets an automatic pass on their RTO at their next training event?
I hope it's a cake made to look like this:
That is frightening on many levels. Apparently a few of these engines have failed prior to hot section inspection due to a similar fault. The cracks that started that would be impossible to find without disassembly. Tossing out turbine disks at takeoff power with an airplane full of people that didn't get hurt is just pure luck. (Luck=Preparation+Opportunity)I hope it's a cake made to look like this:
At least 3 HPT disk failures over the years...which given the number of fleet hours is still pretty low but compared to other engine families kind of high.
You have to wonder how they found that piece.
I'm not suggesting they ground the fleet, it's just disconcerting having a handful of similar failures from a group of engines that are being operated/maintained within the manufacturers recommendations. I wonder if they will trace it back to a common manufacturing flaw. Regardless, the crew did a darn near perfect abort, taking that thing into the air would've been a handful. I wonder how it would've ended had they continued the take off, without the pool of fuel under the wing the airframe might not have caught fire. Devils advocate nonsense ponderings.
I don't know how the sound of a several pound chunk of titanium impacting the roof compares to the ambient noise level inside a UPS facility.
I'm not a metallurgist, but reading other similar events on both the CF6 and other engine series 2 repeated themes come up: metallurgical impurities, and handling/tooling damage.
This is why pilots aren't paid enough.
It looks like that was also a HPT disk rupture.