Not super familiar with NH-90, is an uncontained engine failure very common for the RTM-322 engine used in this aircraft or has there been some embellishment as the story is told/retold by some that don’t know the real story? It seems this failure mode on modern turbine engines is becoming pretty rare.
I ask only because my myself and my crew once experienced an engine failure due to a ruptured combustion liner(on a T700-700) and by the time the final report was issued 6 months later everything we had in our incident statements was either left out of the report or completely wrong. And despite the fact that the bearing supporting the rear of the compressor section failed and caused the compressor to misalign and stall(rather loudly, I might add!) there was no external indication of any damage whatsoever to the engine when we looked at it on post flight.
Whatever the case, the crew in this incident appear to be “Legends”, as the Aussies put it. Great job!
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