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Comment by inejge

19 hours ago

Well, some force flung it inboard and above the fuselage (gods, that CCTV stills sequence.) Knowing that the engine rotates CCW, there are not many candidates.

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JumpCrisscross  12 hours ago

> Knowing that the engine rotates CCW, there are not many candidates

There are lots of candidates for a failing engine yeeting itself in any direction.

  • inejge  8 hours ago

    > There are lots of candidates for a failing engine yeeting itself in any direction.

    For the precise trajectory, certainly; for the general direction, not so much. Could you describe a combination of forces that would have thrown that engine to the left of the direction of travel? (We're talking about this accident, not any engine anywhere.)

    • JumpCrisscross  8 hours ago

      > Could you describe a combination of forces that would have thrown that engine to the left of the direction of travel?

      Foreign object gets yeeted to the right. Internal component gets yeeted to the right. Engine exploded on its right side.

      I think each of those is more likely than gyroscopics since the engine went to the left. Not left and up.

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