Seat4A
"The FAA issued an
Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) (PDF) tonight that requires U.S. operators of airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines to inspect these engines before further flight.
The FAA is taking this action as the result of a fan-blade failure that occurred Saturday on a Boeing 777-200 that had just departed from Denver International Airport. Although the aircraft landed safely, the failure resulted in damage to the engine, an in-flight engine fire, and damage to the airplane."
It's curious that while the FAA (and everyone else) correctly refer to the event as a fan blade failure, the authors of the AD quaintly describe it as the "1st stage LP compressor", as if we've somehow jumped back 60 years in time.