Comment by HPsquared
Wider effects like damage to the wing or changes to aerodynamics.
Edit: and damage to other engines, possibly engine #2 in the tail ingesting debris in this instance.
Wider effects like damage to the wing or changes to aerodynamics.
Edit: and damage to other engines, possibly engine #2 in the tail ingesting debris in this instance.
Deadweight or no-weight engine is a relatively negligible problem in terms of the weight-balance envelope.
Cut fuel & hydraulic lines near that engine (that affect the other engines/ apus) (or less likely structural or aerodynamic problems) is what's going to shift this from "engine failure" recoverable problem to a global nonrecoverable one.
The aircraft hit the roof of a UPS warehouse, barely clearing it before coming down in the parking lot/junkyard nearby. So when we see it turning over in its last seconds (like the trucker dash cam video), it only had one wing at that point.
That's the biggest, the weight gone entirely unbalances the plane; if you knew exactly what happened you MIGHT be able to keep it level (and it seems they did for a bit) but eventually airspeed drops, it tips, and cartwheels (which is apparently what it did from the videos).