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Old 14th Jul 2008, 17:55
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Interesting to note, the aircraft involved in the crash in Colombia was
also previously involved in an incident on take off from Sapporo Japan.
Why is that interesting or relevant? Same airframe, but same engine? You don't know. The Sapporo event was an uneventful handling of a fuel leak and fire warning, as reported in the link you provided. It has some relevance here exactly how?

The report prior to that involved an inflight engine separation, which has already been discussed here after being introduced by the angry black man, I believe. The engine was overhauled by United Airlines, and the high pressure turbine that failed was obtained from Tradewinds. Tradewinds in turn got it from Aeroturbine, who got it from General Electric Commercial Aviaton Services, who obtained it from Polar Air Cargo. It was this high pressure turbine that was installed on the engine that separated, and it was this high pressure turbine that failed. An isolated incident which has no bearing here, and provides no useful information to the current situation. It's been previously discussed, serves no purpose here, so why introduce it?

Events prior to that time in the link you cited apply to American International Airways, a company owned by Kalitta but sold and merged into Kittyhawk...irrelevant to current events, and therefore shouldn't be considered in the present discussions.
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