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Old 23rd Feb 2021, 12:27
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bsieker
 
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Possible damage to some bolts and some superficial scratches. This will undergo a very detailed and careful inspection but my first guess would be that the airframe structure was not compromised in any way. Which is precisely the point of the fan containment ring. It worked as designed, and it is there precisely because a fan blade failure is not one of those "extremely improbable" (10^-9 per hour) failures (not expected during the lifetime of the fleet), but merely "extremely remote" (not anticipated during the lifetime of each individual airframe, but may occur a few times during the lifetime of the fleet".
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