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Delta Airlines plane's engine burst into flames shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles (abc7.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social
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[–] scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

and of course... its a boeing lmao.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is most likely a Delta maintenance issue though.

I bet the passengers were largely ok with the delay it caused... Time to recover from "the engine is on fire" and such.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Lol that's all i wanted to know

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Boeing doesn't make the engines.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Flying in the US is increasingly resembling flying in Russia.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Delta said customers were reaccommodated on a new aircraft to their final destinations.

Well that is mecharobotassassin creepy.