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.