Boeing may have to retrofit 7000 engines...

[TheGreenGoblin]

New York (CNN Business)Investigators of a fatal accident on a Southwest Airlines plane last year recommend that Boeing retrofit the engines of nearly 7,000 jets to prevent a repeat of the accident.

A single passenger was killed on the plane when a fan blade broke and caused part of the engine covering to hit the side of the jet. That broke one of the windows, and the cabin rapidly depressurized. The crew was able to land the plane, but the woman sitting next to that window was killed.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigated the accident, recommended Tuesday that Boeing redesign part of the outer covering of the planes' jet engines to prevent it from flying into the plane should a fan blade break free on a future flight. It said that all Boeing 737 Next Generation series airplanes should be retrofitted with whatever fix Boeing comes up with.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/busi ... index.html

Boeing are certainly having a torrid old time at the moment.

[Pontius Navigator]

Sounds like an airframe issue not engines. Had a presentation by Rolls Royce engineer starting with an engine picture plasters with RR labels.

It is not a RR engine he said. Our engine is inside, the pod is Boring or Airbus. Boeing need to fit containment shields.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Sounds like an airframe issue not engines. Had a presentation by Rolls Royce engineer starting with an engine picture plasters with RR labels.

It is not a RR engine he said. Our engine is inside, the pod is Boring or Airbus. Boeing need to fit containment shields.

Yes, as you say, a Boeing deisgn issue, the engines will have to be removed, a redesigned containment shield fitted and the engines put back in,

[Pontius Navigator]

And attendant CofG issues

[Rwy in Sight]

And attendant CofG issues

It would be very high on their checklist.

[Pontius Navigator]

RiS, really, I wonder why?

[Boac]

I've got an idea - move the engines forward and up?

[Pontius Navigator]

I've got an idea - move the engines forward and up?

What could possibly go wrong with that idea?

[llondel]

It would put the high-paying passengers at risk, given that they're usually towards the front.

[Boac]

On SW?

[llondel]

I was thinking of the general case for the 737, other airlines use it too.

[Boac]

Sorry - forgot the

[Rwy in Sight]

Maybe tbey can find a common solution to both issues. New new engines

[Capetonian]

Not 7000 engines. 14000 engines on 7000 planes.