Airliner engines
One of the things I always notice being left out in media coverage of incidents like this, is that Boeing and Airbus do not make engines. They make the air-frame that in many of these cases saves the passengers from bad things happening to engines that people like GE and Rolls Royce make, especially fan failures that send shrapnel flying at incredible speed out of the engine and the cowling has to absorb that or very bad things happen.
Not that GE and Rolls Royce make bad engines, they are great, GE does some real neat remote sensing and data analytics stuff. If your going to talk about bad thing have happened to X number of these things, then we should talk about how many of these brand of engines have burst into flames, not how many 777s have had problems.
And the passengers shooting video and pictures is a good thing, if you can't GTFO yet, those images can be invaluable additional data points for investigators after the fact.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
