Holy crow!!!!! Can you imagine the force it took to launch that bazillion ton engine like that???
'Darned good thing for the driver the engine decided to 'launch' foreword.
I am reminded of Newton’s 3rd law of physics...for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So...whatever energy level it took to expel that huge lump of iron would also have created a huge “opposite” force toward the cab of that truck. I would not have wanted to be in that cab!!!
Cheers!
Doug
OK, so I did some digging...lots of folks think that the part that flies out of the truck's engine compartment is just the cylinder head with the associated turbos...not the block. That would make sense because whatever parts were "launched" seem to have been launched upwards. The hood was the first part of the truck to give way.
Fellas, fellas, you are having the wool pulled over your eyes. What appears to be a show-stopping explosion in the video posted at the opening of the thread is merely CGI computer graphics. There are a numerous mistakes: like the grandstand crowd on the right not reacting to the huge explosion, the black exhaust smoke exiting from the top of the hood was poorly done, the white smoke on the ground around the thrown engine suddenly gets sucked away to where ? The camera filming this would not have 'Jolted' as it did, that's from the 'Hollywood CGI Effects 101' instruction book. Think for a minute of the popular action movies like Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Avengers and and then watch the video again.