Catastrophic Jet Engine Failure In A Test Cell.

This is why you need to have a jet engine in a hardened test cell for primary testing.

This is a minor failure compared to some I have seen, but most modern test cells have a water deluge system that is almost always tripped in a modern test cell engine failure.

First in rear (afterburner) view, then from front.

Note the guy leaving the test cell just before the mishap.

Video is poor, it is old.
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• Fire
• Mishap
• Safety
• Explosion
• Jet
• Engine
• Gas
• Turbine
• Aeronautic
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• Mechanic
• Mechanical
• Engineer
• Engineering

[liOVERLOADil]

This is a minor failure?!

[ATFSCrash]

LiOVERLOADil: A minor failure caused a major mishap because of a domino effect. A minor failure of one part led to the domino effect and the end result was a catastrophic destruction of virtually all of the parts.

[shoveldog81]

I worked for a company in No. Hollywood , CA who overhauled engines, and we had a JT9 break free from the stand during a test! Havoc!

[Jimih1180]

I work at the test cell in Kadena now---this is wild. We don't use this type of engine here anymore, I would crap my pants if this happened when I was running... There are pictures of the piece of the fan disc that got lodged in the run bay wall.

[caseygtr]

@ForTheFS I think it is, the nozzle sure looks like the one on it's engines. which would be a F100 engine. There's also a F100-229, it has thrust a 2D thrust vectoring nozzle. The F100-229 goes to the F-15 MTD. There is also a F100-PW-229 with 3D thrust vectoring which goes to NASAs F-15 Active.

[ForTheFS]

is it an f-15's engine?

[Remco1901]

that's wat you call catastrohpic

[atvracer111]

I know the crew that was running this engine when it happened...the turbine failed and the fire suppession system failed to activate also and this was actually one of the first engines run in the new hush house at kadena..the engine thru blades all over sticking them in the walls and ceiling of the hush house and the good thing is no one was hurt.

[chuppa1chups]

At 0:46 you can see the other half of the stator resting underneath the intake and a disk bouncing backward through the test chamber about 4 or so times

[proanti1]

fod?

[moviesunrated]

What happened to the bit at the end, it just randomly closed, why?

[Lemurai]

Air force hush house! Maybe a 3 level worked on it!!! 8D