Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
No, it definitely lost one entire fan blade and about a third of the adjacent one.
I stand fully corrected. Only photos available early on were from inside the cabin. Definitely a blade failure, which likely took the 1/3 off the neighbouring blade with it - impact and perforation of Kevlar shroud would be a significant event that could easily have enough residual energy and displacement to tear the outer cowling/acoustic barrel off. Forward momentum of separated blade would focus event on front. Very lucky that blade happened to separate pointing away from wing and cabin. Somebody is going to be running lots of LS-DYNA models.