Hildegarde

I can’t imagine antagonizing someone who you rely on for a tip and a rating.

the S in tsa is for security. they have nothing to do with safety.

The engine is located far from the passenger cabin and it has fire suppression systems that probably put out the fire in flight. They have procedures for this that handled the situation so well they didn’t even have to evacuate the aircraft.

Fires are a risk with any combustion engine. Clearly they mitigated that risk effectively since no one was in any real danger

Boeing doesn’t make the engines.

Delta flight 446 landed safely, and the plane taxied to the gate on its own with no sign of a fire at that point. Passengers were able to deplane normally…

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

This was little more than an inconvenience for the passengers. The news always uses deliberately alarming language to entice a click. There was an actual engine fire this time, but it was a small one that appears to be out before they landed.

Commercial aviation is orders of magnitude safer than cars. The occasional incident is national news because they are rare. Fatal car crashes happen so often they aren’t even newsworthy.

I have seen news stories describe engine surges as “bursting into flames” before, but that’s not the case here.

The video of the incident shows a small but sustained flame emerging from the bottom-rear of the engine, well below the engine’s core.

There was an engine fire but in typical journalistic fashion it was far short of bursting into flames.

Unlikely to be boeing’s fault as they don’t make the engines, just the airframes.

Edit: An engine surge/compressor stall is the plane’s version of a backfire. Big bang and a burst of flames. Very exciting, but very little danger beyond the loss of thrust. This incident wasn’t a surge, but the last time I saw mainstream news say an engine “burst into flames” it was.

TSA ≠ NTSB

Both international treaties on statelessness were never signed by the US. I don’t think the US has any obligations under international law to not make people stateless. But that doesn’t cause statelessness either.

A consequence of this is that Americans have the freedom to make themselves stateless. The government will tell you how monumentally bad of an idea that is, but they will let you renounce citizenship without having another one.