Frontier Airbus "blasted" engine...!?
 

An amazing picture indeed...some hours ago between Tampa and Vegas :cool:

https://twitter.com/DanPonceTV?fbcli...pnkjRjYiEu9eRI

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....05ff5e6cea.jpg

Can't be good for the airflow

Doesnt look as dramatic when on the ground. I think they just took delivery of this ac on Oct 29.....oops that is 2016, not 2018...

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f96fc1286e.jpg

It was Frontier 260 LAS-TPA with a nice view of Sloan Canyon.

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A Frontier flight from Las Vegas to Tampa, Florida, had to return to the airport after an engine cover came off of the aircraft, according to an airline spokesperson.

Frontier Flight 260 took off from McCarran International Airport with a scheduled 7 a.m. departure time, but it had to return for an "engine concern," said Christine Crews with Clark County Aviation.

The flight landed back at McCarran just after 7:25 a.m. with no reports of injuries. Crews said 166 people were on board the plane, an Airbus A320.
Frontier's website listed the flight as canceled, with an originally scheduled arrival time of 2:17 EST at Tampa International Airport.
In a statement, Frontier said a cowling, or engine cover, came loose and pilots immediately returned to McCarran.

"The engine continued to operate normally and the aircraft, an Airbus 320, landed safely," the statement reads. "Safety is our top priority at Frontier Airlines and we would like to acknowledge the professionalism of our pilots and flight attendants. We are working to get our passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible.”

A320 (CFM), first flight of the day after a nightstop ...

Airborne barely 15 minutes.

Oh dear.

30 years of issues on both CEO engine types and still no re-design. Hopefully its different on the NEO?

Are those witness marks on the leading edge of the sharklet? Or is it simply a reflection or part of the paint scheme?
I wouldn't expect engine bits to get that far outboard, but sometimes the airflow does funny things.

Looks like a pic of a BROWN BEAR - either part of a paint scheme on body or on sharklet - unless it was a reflection of a "passenger " looking out a window ;)

lower " mark" appears to be a nav light

upper paint leading edge on sharklet may just be ' wear' under magnification

Say "hi" to Grizwald the bear.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3c5f6c9114.jpg

The fan cowl door on the CFM56 overlaps the thrust reverser door by an inch or two, so if it was the reverser doors that opened first they would likely take the fan cowl doors with them.

Either way its a double dose of carelessness, once by mtce not securing it properly and again by the crew not checking properly during the walkaround. These incidents keep happening despite regular warnings to inspect the fixings before flight.

A320's have a long history of this....how long before it causes fatalities?

A far more serious event with a lot more drag and no fire suppression

Grizwald was delivered October of 2014 . . .

So if both the reverser doors and fan cowls were correctly latched, WTF happened ?

Did they land with slats extended or retracted?
Seems like the damage would interfere with the extended slats.