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American Airlines aborted T/O & engine fire, Chicago O'Hare Airport


Via AP.. :

Official: Plane in Chicago had rare, serious engine failure
By HERBERT G. McCANN and JOAN LOWY
Oct. 29, 2016 12:09 AM EDT 

Two more for the road please waiter

The crew and passengers onboard the United aircraft were very very fortunate the engine popped on the ground. Had it occurred airborne things may have turned out worse.

Not a good few days for our USA brotherhood;

Trumps lackey, Herr Pence, plane slides off runway;

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/...rport.html

FedEx tripler catches fire on landing;

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/28/us/fed...lane-fire/

Good thing all that action wasn't occurring in Australia - CAsA would collapse in a heap, the ATsB wouldn't have the money to investigate, and Minister Chester would run out of makeup and hair product from all his TV appearances and Twitter tweeps.

Update to the American Airlines engine explosion.

 Via Joan Lowy c/o AP: 

                     
NTSB: Failed airline engine disk had fatigue cracking

By JOAN LOWY
Nov. 4, 2016 8:45 PM EDT


FILE - In this photo provided by passenger Jose Castillo, taken Oct. 28, 2016, fellow passengers... Read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — An engine disk that broke apart and forced an American Airlines jet to abort a takeoff in Chicago last week shows signs of fatigue cracking, according to a preliminary report released Friday by accident investigators.

A high-pressure turbine disk in the Boeing 767's right engine broke into four pieces, which shot out of the engine's housing. Investigators have recovered about 90 percent of the disk, and an examination shows evidence of an anomaly where the fatigue cracking begins, the National Transportation Safety Board report said.

Metallurgical examinations of the disk are underway to determine what caused the cracking, the report said. The anomaly was inside the disk, rather than on its surface, where it would be visible. Such anomalies are usually the result of a manufacturing defect.

The engine involved in the Oct. 28 incident is a General Electric CF6-80. In a letter Friday to owners of the same engine type, manufacturer General Electric Co. said one engine containing a "closely related" part was still being used. GE said it was working with the operator of that engine, whom it did not identify, to remove the part.

A GE spokesman said he did not know which airline had an identical engine disk to the one that failed on the American jet.

Disk pieces were spewed up to a half mile away and a fierce fire enveloped the right side of the plane after the failure. The plane was traveling at 154 mph and was seconds from lifting off from O'Hare International Airport for Miami when pilots slammed the brakes.

The fire was fed by a pool of jet fuel that formed under the wing when the plane came to a stop.

All 161 passengers and nine crew on American Airlines Flight 383 were evacuated.

Twenty-one people suffered injuries, mainly from the evacuation down inflated ramps.

Such "uncontained" engine failures are rare and serious events that can cause extensive damage to the aircraft. The broken pieces are fired out of the engine at high speeds, effectively becoming shrapnel.

The NTSB has identified at least three previous uncontained engine failures in commercial airliners in which a disk from the same family of GE engines broke apart — two on the ground in the United States in 2000 and 2006, and one while an Air New Zealand plane was climbing after takeoff on a flight from Australia to New Zealand in 2002. But those cases involved a different type of disk, and it's not clear there is any relationship to the disk failure in Chicago.

The NTSB publishing a preliminary report inside of a week - WOW! Yet our mob are yet to finalise the VH-NGA (PelAir) final..final report are after almost seven years?

Hmm...I guess expediency on investigations and the length of time required to publishing final reports is not a consideration when assessing a State's ability to effectively implement AAI processes. Because according to what the Rev Forsyth Panel was given our ATSB is the best in the world for aviation accident investigation...

 Q/ Has the Forsyth ASRR panel been deceived?


From the above graphic I calculate that the ATSB is a least 15 percentile points above the NTSB - yeah right!


MTF...P2