This is just overly dramatic sensationalism from the press.
Boeing doesn’t make the engines.
This plane was well over 25 years old, so built way before Boeing had the recent issues.
Without knowing what the issue was, who knows what happened? Bad maintenance, a fuckup when preparing the plane, a bird strike?
The plane was perfectly fine, it diverted, landed normally and safely and nobody was unsafe at any point. The term “emergency landing” sounds very dramatic, but it often isn’t.
The plane went on to fly to Dusseldorf the next day and is scheduled to return to service on the 23th.
There are so many planes flying and they have issues all the time. The article isn’t very good as it doesn’t say when this happened, but it appears to have happened on the 16th. But images of flames from an engine and panicked passengers make for a juicy story, so they went with it.
You’re right, the press is running with anything aviation incident related by this point. I know the planes are built with bird strikes and single engine failure in mind, and the negative press was probably spurred on by the recent India Air crash which is still very much in the open as to why it occurred
Not extremely dangerous (one engine still running) but just gonna say: Boeing ain’t having a good time is it?
This is just overly dramatic sensationalism from the press.
There are so many planes flying and they have issues all the time. The article isn’t very good as it doesn’t say when this happened, but it appears to have happened on the 16th. But images of flames from an engine and panicked passengers make for a juicy story, so they went with it.
You’re right, the press is running with anything aviation incident related by this point. I know the planes are built with bird strikes and single engine failure in mind, and the negative press was probably spurred on by the recent India Air crash which is still very much in the open as to why it occurred