Originally Posted by
tdracer
Airbubba - I don't think those were all MD-10s, at least one was an MD-11.
For those who might not know, roughly 20 years ago FedEx picked up a bunch of DC-10s and worked with MacDac to install updated flight decks on them - turning a DC-10 into an MD-10.
The engine was most likely a CF6-50, which I noted in the American 767 thread has a long history of uncontained turbine disc failures - there are several associated AD's which don't seem to have helped much...
While of the same general 'series', the CF6-80C2 on the American 767 is a very different engine relative to the CF6-50.
At any rate, not pleasant times in Cincinnati...
Be advised that the -80C2 is not immune:
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=20000922-0
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=19970906-1
https://aviation-safety.net/database...?id=20000607-1
Last edited by BobM2; 29th Oct 2016 at 01:30.
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