Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
A bit more digging comes up with a surprising number:
DAL Jan 1986
PHL Dec 1987
ORD Jan 1989
DFW Jan 1992
CPT Nov 2007
I was interested to follow up these incidents, for anyone wanting more detail some information is available
here.
here. here. here. and
here.
Not rated on the 73, and have no particular experience of them, however it appears that all the incidents involved the right or No.2 engine, and generally the initiating issue was with the 'aft cone bolt'. While it seems the root cause was mostly to do with poor maintenance (around installation of said bolt) I wonder why it would seem to only affect the right engine?
FP.