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Old 6th Apr 2008, 16:53
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Speedbird48
 
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A&C,

The aircraft that had the turbine disc come adrift while ground running was a long time after the BA712 accident.

It was G-APFP and the engineers were running an engine that they had fixed, and had the opposite side one running as a comparison. The one being used for the comparison shed it compressor disc that cut into the wing and a huge fuel fire ensued.

The airplane was repaired using a wing from a retired TWA aircraft, and flew again for a few years before being sold to Boeing for $1 and then flown to Philadelphia where it was put in front of the Franklin Institute for many years before being scrapped to make way for a car park!!

The wing repair was a very intricate one, and a credit to those that did it as it flew just as well as the others in the fleet afterwards.

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