Aviation Photo #1059747 Boeing 767-223/ER - American Airlines

STUNNING!!! GREAT SHOT!

They were so lucky that it didn't happen in the air.

Dang AA Mechanics!

What the hell happened?

DAMN!!!....ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! Thats HOT!!!

Holy Smokes ! that looks serious - nice capture ... lucky you ...

OMG great show, i've been looking for the follow up of this story. Love the contrast with the NZ heavy

Being there when it all went bad.

So sad to see that.

What happened?

Wow.. cool!

AWESOME TIMING!!!! WOW.... JUST WOW!!!

Thats gives a nice idea of the size of fire amazing lucky shot!
I dont know what 767-200 have with fires like mine usairways photo ;-) Good Work!
Rgrds, Ruben Hofs

Excellent shot Gustav. Right place at the right time, framed it up nicely. How lucky do you have to be to get that!

Did someone leave a donut in the engines again?

Wow! Right place at the right time! Rare fotos like this makes airliners.net even more exciting!

Hopefully that once in a lifetime shot.

Right place and right timing! Hope this picture doesn't get taken off like some of the other about this incident.

The only person(s) luckier were the ones who got away from it before she cooked off any further. Shame to see such a beauty go that way.

I bet the passengers on ZK-SUJ felt very uneasy that flight.

Pilot:
"Ladies and gentlemen, please look on your right side of the airplane as the plane to your left is on fire."

Good timing on the shot by the way.

Engine blew up during a test. That must have been the highlight of the day.

Congrats! Gustavo. Timing and location always matters,too! Suresh

Ooops!

Wow. That looks bad. Hope everybody was ok.

Nice photo...

I don't think I would be feeling too safe if I was onboard the NZ 747-400. Right place, right time, and it goes without saying, an awsome shot.

Matthew

Nice shot ! What happened to the other one that was on a.net ? I bet the NZ passengers must have had quite a thrill with the view !

Gustavo, as usual at the right place at the right time. Thanks for sharing! M.

Very good

Holy crap!
That thing is totally on fire!

Wow Excellent view here. looks like the aircraft is done for

Awful! Luck that it didn't happen on 30'000 feet altitude. :)

Wow.....I wonder what caused it.

I was sitting in my upstairs office at home when I heard the boom. I live 5 miles away from LAX and knew it was some sort of explosion but none of the news channels had anything on it nor did the radio.

Whoa! thats pretty amazing! and the NZ 744 looks sexy too :)

Good!!

Wouchhh ! Just near the fuel tank ! Anybody on board ?

Great timing!

Sad image

Well shot man. Isn't this the second aircraft AA had their engines burn out from tests? Or was this with people inside this time?

OOPS!

Hmmm.. Quite a tragedy that AA had such accident..

Too cool!

I thought the photo of the engine fire on the American Airlines plane was especially good because it is crisp and clear and shows how terrifyingly close the jet is to what appears to be huge fuel tanks.

This kind of pictures remember me the 7/11 :( Good shot my friend!

Wow o_O
wonder what the passengers must thinking -

Gustavo: you are dangereous :) Be aware of this guy, everytime there is an incidence, he's there with his camera :)))))))))))
Cuidate. D

The AA 767 must not want the Air NZ 744 around so it tried to blow fire at it......but got know where near

Great shot! right place, right time.

A dramatic photo! Awesome. Apparently caused by failure of the HPT during a run up test.

It's remember me Virgin Atlantic slogan "4 engines 4 long haul"...

Spectacular...

WOOOOOW! Crazy!

Good detail

From what I have heard no one was on board as it was at the AA hanger. Just from what I have heard.

A rare photo opportunity - well documented on 'film'. I wonder if the NZ 744 was inspected for any damage from the explosion? It is the same aircraft (N330AA) that was on here last week, there weren't two explosions. I was actually on holiday in LA and saw the airframe last week on June 3rd. Unfortunately, I had left my camera at home in England. DoH!!

Les: Sorry for the engine trouble. Fixed it QUICK!!

Very dangerous!!! it burns near the big fuel containers.

At the moment their were no passengers on board of the plane, it was just an engine test wich went wrong. Luckely their were no casaulties

Amazing timing !!! I had 2 engine explosion in my career so far....wish somebody would have been there with a camera....though both happened in flight just after take off....could have been great shots!

Did they ground the NZ flight? Or did they just carry on with TO?

The pilots on that Air NZ 747 must be saying, "!@$#%$^&! We're outta here."

Very nice photo which may have captured the results of a turbine nozzle failure. The 767 uses CF6-80 series engines which have had rash of nozzle lock failures. An AD was generated to address this issue along with technical information from GE. USAir had a similar incident at PHL a couple of years ago. The nozzle locks keep the turbine nozzles in place. When these locks fail, due to cracks and deformation, it allows the nozzle to spin like a turbine wheel, which it is not designed to do. Unrestrained, the tremendous energy generated by the combustor, will cause the nozzles to rapidly spin up. It only takes a small amount of rotation before the turbine section disintegrates with explosive force. I don't believe there was a redesign of the locking system. The fix was to make a one time inspection of the nozzle locking system and increase inspection interval. The aim is to detect any turbine nozzle rotation, check for cracks and defects in individual nozzle locks, and replacement of cracked or deformed nozzle locks. It's important to mention that he nozzle locking system does not fail all at once. What happens is that several high stress nozzles will crack and deform degrading the overall effectiveness of the nozzle locking system. Initially this might allowing the turbine nozzle to shift slightly, which may cause an engine performance anomaly, like high EGT, which maintenance will try to trouble shoot by doing an engine run. If left undetected the remaining nozzle locks, now under even greater stress, taking up the load of adjacent cracked or deformed locks, will crack and deform and then the entire locking system will fail catastrophically. Looks like AA maintenance was investigating an engine performance problem but wasn't able catch the nozzle lock problem before an engine failure. Good thing it happened during a static ground run!

American Airlines B 767 Engine Explosion

230 PM, Friday, June 2, 2006 at LAX. American Airlines Boeing 767 doing a high power engine run had a #1 engine High Pressure Turbine (HPT) failure. HPT let go and punctured left wing, #2 engine, peppered fuselage and set
fire to the aircraft. The turbine disk exits the engine and slices through the aircraft belly and lodges in the outboard side of the #2 engine.

And that really sucks ! No casualties ...

Great timing capturing this! The 767 reportedly came in with problems on Eng #1. MX was performing a test run on this engine when a turbine wheel failed. Parts of the wheel exited through the side of the hot section, sliced through the fuselage and some pieces even embedded themselves in Eng #2. The resulting fire caused substantial damage to the wing and fuselage.

I hope there wasnt anyone on board! OUCH!!!!

That is a sweet shot! Better on the ground than in the air!

Amazing! I have not found any pictures of the 767 engine explosion itself until now!

Wow so amazing!!

Right at the moment! Really impressive. T.B.

Americans...lol, very nice photo though!

Only mechanics on board. MX was doing a engine test run. High pressure disk failed. Spinning at high speed(thousands, or tens of thousands of RPM) and weighing over 20 kg(44 lbs), it exited the engine and caused severe damage to the engine.

Many of the best photos are taken by people who happen to be at the right place and the right time. This is a perfect example. Shows exactly what was on fire and close enough to see.

Are you sure this wasn't at Baghdad (former:Saddam Hussein) International?

Briilant

Good short

What an great action pic. Often you read of incedents like this, but hardly ever do you see a great pic. Well done

Great picture

In certification circles..engine must not burst,catch fire and so on ..there are six of these sins in engine certification.It appears that at least two sins are commited in the photo

You yanks really know how to put on a barbie!

Great action photo.

I was waiting to get on shuttle bus to remote bay at that moment, this pic just recalled my memory, great pic! RWY25R was closed for a while because of this BANG!!!

I rolled right past this plane that same evening on an inbound Cathay Pacific Flight from Hong Kong. I couldnt believe what I saw. All of the paint was burned off the back of the plane. I wondered to myself what happened but now I know. Great shot.

WOW!!! What an explosion, i think the passengers in the NZ 744 sitting on the left side must have been really shocked!!

"fly air new zealand, cos our motors dont catch fire"

Thats an awesome pic, nice to see something exciting with an NZ 744 in it as well, perhaps air nz engineering could give AA a few tips with engine and general maintnence =P

Fantastic timing, well done!

Hey, Gustavo, you sure that's not a 767 on afterburner? Glad that there were no casualties. Thanks for sharing a really "Explosive" capture here!

Great pic, lucky airline that it wasen't flying

At least they found the problem on the ground and not the air.

It's sad to see any aircraft suffer this type of faith. The aircraft involved was almost done with
the maintenance checks with engine runs to be performed before entering service again.
Unfortunately the aircraft has sustained serious damage on the entire wing, both engines and the
underside of the fuselage. The fire penetrated the aircraft so bad that the metal itself showed
signs of melting thereby affecting the aircraft's structure which is a pretty serious problem. A
problem that is not worth fixing the aircraft for. The aircraft will most likely be written off.

Great shot!

The people on the Air NZ must have been thinkin oh DEAR!

Excellent job on the timing!

Wow! absoulety faboulous!
Exploding engines... Superb!!
Also I like Air New Zealand

Damit!!!!!!!!!! perfectly good 767 w/ useful service still left. so sad

Way to be alert!
Good documentary photo.

Amazing, the photo was taken at the perfect time

Same thing happened to another AA767 in San José de Costa Rica Airport (SJO) two years ago.

W/o June 8th 2006, Determined that repairs to the aircraft were not worth the costs. Was scrapped and parts of the a/c sit in AA's maintence hanger in Tulsa, Ok or on another A A 767. The rest was cut up. Shame.

This is your captain speaking. Smoking on this flight will not be permitted.

As Jim Caerrey would say, Smokin'!!!

This is your captain speaking. Smoking will not be permitted on this flight.

No i know that 767s can crap an engine in front of 747s

Great shot

Beautiful picture

Poor airplane, it didn't deserve to die! :(

The Air New Zealand cockpit must be overwhelmed by the sight. So close, they probably could smell the fume.

The shot was actually not expected and yet caught in good detail. The thought of this happening at 35,000 feet and full of passengers is goose bump time.

How did the tires hold out? i bet they were melted. I thought that AA and US 767's were the only airplane to offer afterburners.

A rare shot. Nice picture with good details such as fire and smoke.

Nice shot. right place at right time

Gave 5 for phtographer's luck. Thanks God it happend on the ground not in air.

Excellent timing!

Poor ole 767!

Imagine the view from the ANZ 747

Wow, A explosion next to what looks like giant gas tanks.

"Well, it looks like that #1 engine is running a little hot." Wonder what the pilots of that ANZ 747 were thinking?

It looks like there is a big cloud of dust in the foreground left of center by the taxiway Bravo sign there in the grass. It looks similar to the one behind the incident aircraft. Did part of the exploding engine fly all the way over near that taxiway sign?