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Often when one of these engines loses some compressor blades they go through the rest of the engine and corn-cobb the rotor.
Since there is a big hole in the compressor section and I don't see any other outer damage, i'd say it is possible that the engine lost an entire compressor disc which exitted the engine radially rather than axially. That is what brought down that plane in iowa, a disc failed due to a metallurgical flaw near the bore and cut through all the hydraulics.
Old 12-04-2007, 07:54 PM
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