Originally Posted by
oleary
Brian Abraham states, "Actually the C30 gave very good service, only recall one catastrophic engine failure in all the years of operation."
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You, sir, are extraordinarily UNINFORMED, ...
.... or perhaps new to the industry.
BA I suspect was probably referring to the C30 in-service experience at Esso which I think, overall, gave them many years of reliable service on the S76A. Probably many hundreds of thousands of hours in-flight operation, many of which BA was responsible for. And as far as I know they only had one blow up in-flight, and the other on the ground.
In my limited experience I've seen all engine types blow up at some point in service, and that includes 1S1, 2S1, PT6 and C30. No particular type has a tendency to blow up any more than the others, I'm just glad that a spare was always available on-board when the other didn't want to play any more.