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Last edited Thu Nov 20, 2025, 09:43 PM - Edit history (1)

Man these pictures say so much.

Look at frame 1. The aircraft has just barely lifted off. The engine is still attached and no indication that it is anything other than fully functioning.

Note the position of the hanger right behind the tail. Compare that to frame 2 to see just how quick this happened. At their speed, milliseconds between the 2.

Now frame 2. The aft pylon mount (not engine mount) has failed and the thrust of the engine is rotating it forward and upward around the axis of the forward pylon mount.

Now frame 3. The pylon is fully detached, appears to have penetrated the fuel tanks on the TOP of the wing, releasing fuel and the fire has started.

Frame 4. The engine has probably burned all the fuel in the lines within the pylon and on the engine but it is still spinning and moving air. It propelled itself up over the backbone and landed in the grass off the RIGHT side of the runway instead of the left side where it started out.

Frame 5 shows a left wing engulfed in flames.

Frame 6 shows flashes behind #2, probably a compressor stall from the aft engine ingesting debris from #1 as it departed and crossed up and over the fuselage.

With number 1 departed from the wing and a huge fire in the left wing, these guys were in a world of hurt but had a chance to bring it home. When the second engine failed, they were just along for the ride. Rest easy dudes.

Edited because I initially missed the signs of a #2 compressor stall.