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Southwest Airlines protested airworthiness directive designed to prevent engine failures
While a National Transportation Safety Board investigation is still underway, NTSB officials confirmed that the uncontained engine failure aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was the result of a fan blade breaking from a crack near the fan's hub. The failure is similar to one that occurred on another Southwest flight in September 2016. (arstechnica.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Does this company have any fault it the matter? Are they inspecting engines at this facility? Just asking because I don't know the responsibility of the maintenance outsourcing.. http://www.mro-network.com/operations/southwest-open-mro-joint-ventures Standard Aero
The AD that just came out establishes a starting inspection at 30000 Cycles (not hours). So it will be mostly high time engines to start with. As the service bulletin is the inspection criteria, until that is viewed, we wont really know if CFM/FAA is targeting the blade times or engine times. You could have a low time blade set and high time engine and vice versa.
The only reason Southwest wanted a longer timeline is they felt the AD could have been more specific and thourough. Therefore Swa had proposed that their current maintenance practice of doing an ultrasonic inspection every 3,000 cycles on all fan blades over an 18-month period in the -700/-800 Fleet was preferred over doing a one-time inspection in 12 months on only specific blades. It was thought that this approach would increase safety, reduce risk, and maintain compliance even better than what was proposed. Just to set the record straight folks
Lawyers in the upcoming lawsuit against SWA are already salivating over that refusal to comply...
What refusal? The AD was never issued, so they could refuse to comply. They were finalizing the AD, and CFM asked for less time for lower cycle engines, and SWA asked for more time. It's all a normal part of an AD issuance.
Do agree Steven but the Judge may not see it that way.
Time will tell
Time will tell