Commentary: Passengers on an Air France flight look out the window and see that one of the plane’s engines has been mysteriously wrecked.
Serious damage.
Sometimes, though, things go wrong.
On Saturday, for example, passengers on Air France flight 066 from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to Los Angeles looked out of the window and saw something disturbing.
The Airbus A380’s No. 4 engine — that’s the one on the outside of the right wing — had endured an explosion. One passenger, Miguel Amador, speculated this had been caused by a bird strike.
But the front cowling and the fan disc had completely come off.
