Originally Posted by
tdracer
I'm thinking they might have been reluctant to perform an overweight landing when they knew they already had a damaged undercarriage...
Anyone know if the engine was shutdown, or just run at lower power/idle? That's some pretty nasty fan blade damage.
Well the hp might be able to run at idle and drive some externals,but the lp is sure gonna screw up the flow into the HP seeing as the LP Turbine won't feel much load from the wide open fan blade tips. Any successful attempt to run at power is gonna cook the HP turbine as it tries to salvage the engine cycle. Hopefully in a worst case you can baby the engine until a worse case emergency