Delta 717 Engine cowling unscheduled departure
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Delta 717 Engine cowling unscheduled departure
CNN - Those with a window seat got quite the view: The piece covering the plane's right engine -- or cowling, as it's called -- had come off.
Can anyone confirm that this is actually visible to passengers?
On the F28 the front of the engine nacelle was visible through the small (tiny) window in the aft lavatory but on the 717 I think this would be very difficult to see from any passenger window.
It would also be a bit unusual, I think, for passengers to be told the exact nature of the problem such that it would prompt last-row passengers to even try to see that far back.
Can anyone confirm that this is actually visible to passengers?
On the F28 the front of the engine nacelle was visible through the small (tiny) window in the aft lavatory but on the 717 I think this would be very difficult to see from any passenger window.
It would also be a bit unusual, I think, for passengers to be told the exact nature of the problem such that it would prompt last-row passengers to even try to see that far back.
Last edited by WingNut60; 9th May 2016 at 16:21.
My very first flight in any plane was in the next-to-back row of a DC-9. Pressing my nose HARD against the window, I could just make out most of the fan inlet (grossly distorted by the thick pressure glass), and that's about it.
No way could I have seen as far back as the missing cowl section on this 717.
No way could I have seen as far back as the missing cowl section on this 717.
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I've ridden DL's MD-88 and DC9 and you certainly would have been able to on those. I can't confirm the 717 but from this image my guess is that you would also be able to: Photo: N974AT (CN: 55034) Boeing 717-2BD by Akib Rubaiyat Photoid
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Quoted from seatguru:
The window seats in rows 28 and 29 have no view because the engines are directly outside the windows. The engine intakes are exactly even with the back edge of the windows in row 27 so the view is limited.
The window seats in rows 28 and 29 have no view because the engines are directly outside the windows. The engine intakes are exactly even with the back edge of the windows in row 27 so the view is limited.
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Can anyone confirm that this is actually visible to passengers?
