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Old 7th Apr 2024, 21:21
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Originally Posted by Big Pistons Forever
Seems appropriate for this airline, the left cowl went South and the right cowl went West.

At least this one is going to be hard to blame on Boeing, although I am sure the media morons will try 🙄
The cowling (nacelle) design is responsibility of the aircraft manufacturer, not the engine company. (Correction: I looked up in the book of an Airbus engineer again, it states the inlet is the task of the airframe manufacturer)

It's not clear if it was a handling/maintenance issue in this case here.

There was a weakness in design on Fan Bladeout Event, detected on the mortal FBO accident some years ago, but this didn't play a role here.

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