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Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff.

The Garuda Indonesia flight was bound for Medina, Saudi Arabia, which is the entry point for many Muslims making their pilgrimage to Mecca. It left from Indonesia’s international airport in Makassar, where clips showed one of the plane’s four engines becoming engulfed in flames during takeoff on Wednesday evening.

Videos of the engine fire were shared online by JACDEC, a plane crash data evaluation firm, which showed that the flames began just as the plane had lifted from the runway.

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[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 27 points 2 years ago

747s are designed to lose an engine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and still be able to return to land safely. Literally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

90m isn't ideal, but perfectly fine.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

It's weird they designed it to lose an engine. They should have designed it not to lose an engine. That would have been better.

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

(((THEY))) don't want that, though!!!!

[-] Dempf@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

ETOPS is not required for 747s. Being a 4 engine plane it can run fine with him three. So an engine failure is not an actual emergency although you will still need to land cause of the reduced performance running with three engines.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Can we have other internet infrastructure built that way too?

[-] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Well, we have already.

The Internet was designed to be resilient against nuclear war. Most protocols are resilient, it's just been the last few years that some companies abused their positions (Cloudflare, Google) and it also came to light, that some protocols have been designed with a tad too much trust (BGP, SMTP).

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I am aware.. I meant more so with the recent trends.. We have p2p ffs. So its not the tech its how its being built.

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