Originally Posted by
infrequentflyer789
Southwest Airlines flight 3472, 2016. Same engine, same type, same airline, and very similar event (IF this one is a blade off) including fuselage damage and depressurisation (occurred around the same altitude as well).
As far as I can find there are no other similar CFM 56 incidents, but I haven't done a lot of research to be sure on that. However, if these are the only two then question is are Southwest really unlucky or doing something different. As you say, there are a lot of CFM 56s out there.
Agree. And while aviation analysts rushed to provide answers for news media, one of the news outlets just posted images of the SWA 2016 engine along side a pic of today's event. Be damned if they don't look very similar.