Originally Posted by
pax2908
Would it be excessive speculation to say that, since shipping the damaged engine "can wait", it means that essential information (re. what caused the failure) is NOT expected to be found inside ... meaning that what is known already today, is significant?
It may merely mean that the interesting bits (apart from the ones in Greenland), from an investigation point of view, have already been removed from the damaged engine (and shipped elsewhere if necessary) for analysis. Which bit failed first and where is quite possibly obvious just from looking at the damaged engine, (if it isn't obvious from just looking at the photos of it!), the why and how of the failure may take a lot more work, but often won't need all the bits of the engine (anymore than it needs all the aircraft).
I am sure that the remains of the rest of the engine will be very interesting for EA, for all sorts of reasons, but may not add much to the investigation.