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Old 23rd Jun 2006, 11:48
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Originally Posted by barit1
Jon's looking for this one. In this case it was the combustor--folks seem to forget the region between the HPC and HPT is a pressure vessel containing several hundred psi.
Looks to me like the commonality bewteen the two events is the location of a fuel tank access panel being in harms way for small parts which ricochet. It might be that the fuel tank access panel is weaker than the typical robust underwing skin.
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