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The article should have said pipes in the engine bay areas. Similarly, the Jimmy Jones quote has for some reason been completely distorted during the production process by the idiotic removal of the word “areas”.
What he actually said was: “It is highly questionable as to whether Nimrod should now be flying with potentially hot air leaks in the wing tank areas." My apologies to him for that.
The part numbers for the pipes that failed were:
6M4E131A/1, described in the report as: “HP Air, Inner Engine LH” and
6M4E147A (7800), described as “Anti-icing duct, inner engine”.
The proof pressure given in the report was 575psi. Both were tested using water and failed at 100psi, which the report describes thus:
“Duct 10 (Part No 6M4E131A/1) and Duct 25 (Part No 6M4E147A) both leaked water through the bellows area at low pressure (<100psi).”
There is more detail here:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/mick_...fety-fear.html