Originally Posted by
tdracer
I treat early reports as highly suspect - more often than not they are incorrect, however if the report Airbubba quotes is correct of a fan disc failure, that's really scary. Off hand, I can't remember a fan disc failure since the Sioux City DC-10.
And, I may be reading too much into the report when they say fan disc parts were found half a mile away. It might still be a turbine disc failure causing an explosion that tore up the fan.