Originally Posted by
bearfoil
To add: Stub Pipe. Not even an id as to which end of the pipe we are looking at, eh? RR is close to the vest,
...and I was just thinking that we'd got a lot of official info pretty early on this one - I would say ATSB doing a good job with it. Not like some countries where you wait years to find out essentially nothing.
and until I see some engineering drawings, I'm not stepping foot on a TRENT motivated airframe, unless it is chocked, and I'm near an exit. But that's just me.
bear
And P&W ? [
http://cdn1.atp.com/ADs/pdf/102409.pdf ]
[...] cracking of No. 3 bearing oil pressure tubes, which could result in
internal oil fire, failure of the high-pressure turbine disks, [...]
Does that not sound spookily similar ?
And GE ? [
SB-10-20 -
four actual uncontained failures inside two years ! ]
Any major engine mfrs I've missed ?
Also curious - what did you do after BA038 ? To me, this incident looks a lot more clear cut and fixable / manageable, after comparatively little investigation time. For BA038 there were major unknowns for considerable time (and arguably still are). Uncontained engine failure is survivable, with a little luck. Fuel cutoff to all engines leaves you needing a
lot of luck (IMO).