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NTSB has just issued an urgent recommendation letter (.pdf) asking FAA to order immediate inspections of GE GEnx engines. The recommendations: Issue an airworthiness directive to require, before further flight, the ultrasonic inspection of the fan midshaft in all General Electric GEnx-1B and -2B engines that have not yet undergone inspection. (A-12-52) Urgent Require operators to accomplish repetitive inspections of the fan midshaft (FMS) in all (on-wing and spare) General Electric GEnx-1B and -2B engines at a sufficiently short interval that would permit multiple inspections and the detection of a crack before it could reach critical length and the FMS fractures. (A-12-53) Urgent NTSB's move comes following a preliminary look into evidence from the second GEnx failure in two months. Plenty more to come....
NTSB has just issued an urgent recommendation letter (.pdf) asking FAA to order immediate inspections of GE GEnx engines. The recommendations:
Issue an airworthiness directive to require, before further flight, the ultrasonic inspection of the fan midshaft in all General Electric GEnx-1B and -2B engines that have not yet undergone inspection. (A-12-52) Urgent
Require operators to accomplish repetitive inspections of the fan midshaft (FMS) in all (on-wing and spare) General Electric GEnx-1B and -2B engines at a sufficiently short interval that would permit multiple inspections and the detection of a crack before it could reach critical length and the FMS fractures. (A-12-53) Urgent
NTSB's move comes following a preliminary look into evidence from the second GEnx failure in two months.
Plenty more to come....
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