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MD-80 Engine Fire – Reality or Doctored Picture?

By miller22 | November 10, 2007

MD-80 Engine Fire

 

 

 

This picture just seems off. I do believe there actually was an engine fire on this aircraft, but it seems suspicious that someone captured its exact moment. Seems more likely that they doctored an existing picture. The pictures below are real, so it did happen. Can anyone find the original of the above picture to prove this doctored?

 

 

 

MD-80 Engine Fire

 

 

 

MD-80 Engine Fire

 

 

 

MD-80 Engine Fire

 

 

 

The JT8-D is a very reliable engine. They don’t just catch on fire, let alone a fire that can’t be extinguished by the fire protection systems.

Topics: MD-80, Pictures | 13 Comments »

  • Niek

    Fake, it used to be 2 photos, the airplane and the airport, someone put them together, then added the fire, and then the flames.

  • http://www.md80.net/yabbse/ Webmaster at MD-80 Forum

    The first photo is fake with exact same aircraft at same airport in the shot. Here is the original:

    http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0765119/M/

  • http://www.airlineempires.net miller22

    Fantastic Find, MD-80!

  • http://scam-hell.blogspot.com James Wolfenstein

    It was a fantastic find indeed. But you have to admire the talent of the photoshopper. He didn’t get any picture of a similar plane, he went for one of the exact same aircraft. Check the numbers, N454AA.

  • Jim

    Faked picture. The NTSB (and several eyewitnesses I talked to) stated that the emergency aircraft landed on Runway 30L. http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20071005X01522&key=1
    The control tower, which is on the south side of the field, would have been on the left side of the aircraft. The aircraft in this picture appears to be on approach to runway 12L, with the control tower in the background on the right side of the aircraft.

  • melvin

    how did it catch on fire then

  • Chuck Norris

    It's a doctored image. The smoke doesn't look right at all, and looks more like water.

  • James Yardley
  • James Yardley
  • CSballer89

    Also, along with the smoke looking like water, any fire on the actual engine itself like that would be burning any POLs still on the engine which would result in a tick black smoke, not the thin white contrail looking smoke seen in the picture.

  • GrapevineTom

    James Yardley got it right… a YEAR ago. Check the tail no. in the

    pics on airliners.net to see the AA MD-80 making a “smokeless”

    landing.

    (Before the Photoshopped fire!)

  • skydancer

    Here's the original unretouched Photo:

    http://www.airliners.net/photo…

    Fake arooni Man!

  • Caesar A. Bikic

    At take off, much different story!