BS>For Trans World Airlines Flight 800:
Exhibit 8A, Page 11, paragraph 3, discussing results of engine 3 disassembly, "Of the 46 fan blades in the fan rotor, 21 blades with complete or partial airfoils and 6 root sections were recovered. All of the fan blades had sooting on the convex airfoil surfaces. Most of the full length airfoils were bent rearward and the tips outboard of the outer midspan shroud were bent forward slightly. About half of the fan blades had impact damage to the leading and trailing edges. Almost all of the impact damage to the airfoils could be matched to contact with the midspan shroud on an adjacent blade. One full length blade had four soft body impacts along the leading edge and a partial airfoil had a soft body impact, which had some streaking extending rearward."
From AAR 00/03 for Trans World Airlines Flight 800:
1.12.4 Engines ‘No evidence of uncontainment, case rupture, fire, penetration of an object from outside into the engine, or preimpact damage was found in any of the engines.’
JBS>The engine obviously came apart in the air throwing the broken from FOD blades everywhere including the right horizontal stabilizer just aft of number three, there is nothing ‘soft’ inside the engine so the ‘soft body impacts’ came from without, and sooting means abnormal fire inside the engine.
To say ‘No evidence of uncontainment, case rupture, fire, penetration of an object from outside into the engine, or preimpact damage was found in any of the engines.’ is as close to a lie as NTSB can come and still not be laughed out of the room.
For the benefit of those in this forum who have open minds. The description of damage to engine pos 3 correlates with an engine that was intact, but no longer running as it fell face first towards the ocean. During this fall it was still attached to the wing for a period of time and as such it ingested a good deal of flames into the inlet. The wing surface on this side of the aircraft also showed the same sort of sooting asymetric to the normal fore to aft wing flow. (presumably the wing was no longer operating as intended).
Subsequently the no 3 engine separated and continued its free fall into the sea where it struck the inlet cowl first causing the inlet cowl to fold into the fiberglas nose spinner and thence into the fan rotor itself. The hydraulic loading of the water was of such force that it folded the blades which had survived the impact of the inlet cowl and nose spinner aft in a reverse spiral folding action causing the blades to close the gaps between them and to crush the blade shrouds out of the way.
No mysteries here to the trained investigators, just food for conspiracy folks who like to get their name in print.