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The Qantas A380s use RR Trent 900 engines...so do SIA...
Emirates use Engine Alliance units and Air France use GE...
So I guess that patssle will limit flying to Boeing airframes powered by PW and GE engines....
or maybe he/ she should see what happens when a American Airlines 767 had its CF6 suffer an uncontained disc failure (just out of the maintenance centre)....they have now scrapped that airframe in situ as the fire damage was too great to repair economically.
Regardless of the engine/ airframe this type of failure (it appears to be the disc not blade, the disc holds all the blades in place and a large piece was found on the ground some distance away....) is unlikely to be contained by a reasonable cowl design (it would need to be armour plating)...
RR will be burning the midnight oil on this one.. as will all the large turbofan makers...
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Last edited by MFAFF; 11-04-2010 at 01:58 PM..
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