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For anyone that didn't get the reference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM. Worth a watch!

RIP John Clarke :(

It's rare that the funny response is actually more likely to be the accurate response.

One possibility is that the fan shaft failed, and since the fan was no longer attached to the plane that it had been pulling through the sky, it went happily ahead by itself (perhaps still in one piece), taking the cowling with it.

That was my initial guess. It could also have been a contained failure that damaged the cowl, which later separated from aerodynamic stress. But the missing fan (and maybe a compressor stage) does seem to imply a shaft failure. The main question is whether that was the beginning of the event, or a later result from a different failure.

Can't help thinking of El Al flight 1862's weird "engine fell off" scenario:

https://youtu.be/QkWUIaEoUls?t=36m49s

I know we're not supposed to upvote or acknowledge jokes on HN, but this was in such good taste I couldn't resist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It doesn't say anything about jokes.

I think the unspoken agreement is that nobody wants HN discussions to turn into reddit with its overabundant pun threads and "funny" one liners. But this one was on point.