Originally Posted by
tdracer
If it was an uncontained engine failure, the high energy debris will remain with +/- 5 degrees of the plane of rotation. Any engine debris outside that arc would have insufficient energy to penetrate the aluminum structure, so any shrapnel holes outside that arc didn't come from the engine.
Both of the recent accident aircraft (SW1380 & SWA3472) had high energy debris outside of that arc I believe. Hence the work being carried out on CFM56-7 engines.
Wether that’s relevant to this accident, I don’t know. Happy to be corrected.