The guy ejected from that Somali aircraft was the suicide bomber.
Somewhere, an engineer who built this plane is having a good laugh: https://t.co/iu8KH32q84
— Rene F. Najera, MPH (@EpiRen) February 4, 2016
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Brings a smile to my face.
Is this a hull loss?
That’s a good question. It’s probably repairable, if it only blew out the skin and window. They’d have to examine primary structure in the vicinity. In Somalia, I’d guess it goes back into service.
Given it’s Somalia they may just patch it with duct tape.
A little duct tape and visqeen / poly sheet.
or
… It’ll buff right out.
I am interested in “who’s” jet this is.
The picture looks like it shows the CFM-56 because the V-2500 has a fully ducted nacelle (the fan discharge and the core exhaust mix inside the nacelle and come out one largish nozzle)?
I thought that only the installation on the 737 had those little vanes on the fan housing, but I thought all the 737’s had the “hamster pouch” version of the CFM-56 where the accessories are to the sides of the fan — this is to allow for the lower landing gear height. All 737′ are the hamster pouch CFM-56 whereas you can get A320-series planes either with the more conventional CFM-56 layout or with the V-2500.
The fuselage looks a little longish for the A-320 — could this be an A-321?
Boeings have a reputation for “built-tough”, but if an Airbus made it through this “incident”, I think we should give those engineers their due for building it right.
It’s an Airbus A321 with CFM-56B engines.
OK, I think this guy wins it – he goes to hell in every religion! (Except Atheism, I guess)
So, a successful suicide bombing, then, in that he didn’t take anyone else with him.
Yes, finally a murder/suicide done in the correct order.
Even apart from “workplace accident” incidents, I am not so sure this is a “first.”
Wasn’t there some guy who tried to assassinate a highly placed Saudi minister, or maybe even the King or a close family member? Didn’t this guy try to use, ahem, a body-cavity device? Didn’t he do himself him while at the same doing no worse damage to his target beyond covering the man with . . . OK, you get the idea