For the benefit of any non-Scots reading this thread, this standard of journalism is par for the course for the Daily Record, where mis-reporting and gross exageration is the norm - we Scots take it all with a pinch of salt. It is unfortunate though that this sort of article makes it appear that the airline is somehow at fault and probably deters nervous potential new passengers. And this at a time when GSM need all the good press that they can get.
However, it is fair to say that your average SLF with no knowledge of aircraft ops, far less about the implications of an engine surge, is going to crap himself if he hears a bang and sees a spurt of flame where there shouldn't be any. And I suspect that even the best flight crew in the business are going to find it difficult to communicate a calming message to all of them. Between the incident and landing, and then the SLF being interviewed by the press, their imaginations will have probably had time to remember seeing the wing almost fall off..............
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