After 100 flights???
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Re: After 100 flights???
Sitting, initially, quitely, wrecking the engine over a 100 hrs or 100 flights, as you question, seems to be a case of real negligence. Tool FOD has been a factor in some serious incidents, and accidents, and this is clearly one of the former.
https://www.fodcontrol.com/
Though you remain
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"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Convinced
"To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive."
Re: After 100 flights???
The illustration is misleading - it shows a standard-sized screwdriver, whereas the piece was what is called a screwdriver tip - smaller than a little-fingertip or about 3/4 inch long by 1/4 inch diameter.
Agreed it is hardened steel and therefore a 'projectile'.
Agreed it is hardened steel and therefore a 'projectile'.
Re: After 100 flights???
I had to part company with my BonaJet in Germany as a fitter had allowed a pop-rivet mandrel to drop into the intake during repair to the bleed doors. Its damage to the root of an HP blade caused fatigue blade fracture several flights later, and I won the raffle.
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Re: After 100 flights???
Didn't an engine on XH558 get written off by a pair if pliers being left in an intake?
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