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Old 26th Mar 2009, 23:21
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Looking at the blade hanging on that ladies wall I'd hazard a guess at a turbine disc letting go...not unusual if it's a GE CF6.
Turbine disk failures have been very rare even in that machine

Turbine blade failures not nearly as rare in most machines.

The CF6 has had a number of events that look just like this (about 1 every two years)
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