Dropping Engines
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Dropping Engines
I hear today that a Ryanair 737-800 engine has been dropped onto the ground at STN. The gang that it happened to are the same guys who dropped one last month. A failed winch is being cited by FLS as the cause. The kit being used belonged to Ryanair. Needless to say, Ryan have taken the winch away for investigation.
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Britannia too had an engine dropping incident very recently. A bootstrap operation in the hangar using lifting equipment they shouldn't have. I believe a winch slipped into neutral. One engineer came very close to being seriously injured/killed. Don't know much more about it as I wasn't involved.
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I literally dropped an RB211 off of a 747-400 (no injuries except to pride) everything was being done to the book as it was 1st eng removal at a new facility (I had done them before) all equipment was new, guess what, the manufacturer of the equipment had fitted a 737 rated gearbox to the winching gear, guess what, it gave way and engine hit the floor from about 6 ft. How does that saying go, it happened before and it will happen again! So much for quality control!
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I have seen this happen once already. The bootstrap equip for the CFM56-7 is crap. It seems that the fittings that attach to the engine are handed, and the left side will easily attach to the right but not the other way around. As a consequence of this, trying to reverse these fittings results in stretching and eventualy breaking the attach bolts (only 10-32's). On the plus side these -7 engines can be replaced in under 8 hours complete. Compared to the -3, that's quite an improvement provided the tooling doesn't fail!
