787 engine failure in Charleston, SC

[Turbine D]

barit1,

I beg to differ.

I think Private Jet was referring to teething problems in general on new engines going into service, not just the GEnx. The most recent serious was the RR Trent 900, A-380 incident. But, others that come to mind include the GE90 introduction on British Airways' B-777 where gearbox bearing wear caused BA to terminate long range service for nearly a year. CFM56 introduction on the DC-8's where the starter shafts sheared due to too tight of geometric tolerances, also, HPT blades clogging with fine sand dust due (blades burned up eventually) to dust holes not being big enough, and I am sure there are P&W examples as well. Annoying but also disruptive problems to the airlines during initial introductions into service...

TD