The Boeing Co 777 plane had flown nearly 3,000 cycles, equivalent to one take-off and landing, which compares to the checks every 6,500 cycles mandated after a separate United engine incident in 2018, said the sources.Pratt, the maker of the PW4000 engines, advised airlines on Monday to step up checks to every 1,000 cycles, in a bulletin seen by Reuters. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it was ordering immediate inspections of 777 planes with PW4000 engines before they could return to flight, going further than Pratt.On Monday, the FAA acknowledged that after a Japan Airlines PW4000 engine incident in December it had been considering stepping up blade inspections.
A risk-assessment meeting was held last week to discuss the issue before the United engine failed on Saturday, one of the sources said, confirming an earlier report by CNN. No decision had been imminent ahead of the United incident, the source added.Our Standards:
These machines are built to be work mules. The more they dont, covid 🦠, the more they break down. Currently they are under heavy rotation. Few passengers hence the breakdowns, and its not the last you will hear of it.
Between this and the 737 Max, I may never fly again.
It often takes a failure to bring about changes. Look back to flight 232 on July 19, 1989. Nobody expected a fan disc explosion would sever all three hydraulic lines, but it happened and changes were made.
Maybe the 777 was what saved this plane!! Thank god they don’t have a 666 model.....
Oye! Keep 🔎🔍 that ✈️ history 🧐🧐
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