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Incident Report: Norwegian Air Boeing 787 Engine Failure Caused By Blade Fracture
Italian investigators have discovered that a blade fracture within the intermediate pressure turbine of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine on a Norwegian Air Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, caused the uncontained engine failure that forced the plane to perform an emergency landing at Rome-Fiumicino Airport on August 10, 2019. (airwaysmag.com) More...
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A question for the mob? When will two of these nextgen powerplants have a Mean Time Between Failure rates anomaly on the same airplane at the same time in the three hour ETOPS window? I have been sorta pokin this question around for a while and gotten no response. The fact is that ETOPS authorizations are solely predicated upon MTBF #'s and the engines on the A350, 787 and A330NEO et. al. had in no way accumulated the # of operational hours that the previous generation had accumulated when ETOPS first came into existence. How could they? New tech. airframe, nextgen powerplant, three hour ETOPS virtually right out of the box. JMHO. P&W, GE, RR nextgen powerplants have ALL grounded nextgen airplanes, and yet, no questions about ETOPS. Follow the money. I think sir tim of emirates said somethin about this issue recently and anybody who spent an entire career countin on thrust and doesn't see an issue with this issue must be a very accomplished glider pilot. I'm not!
