FAA demands emergency inspection of select Boeing 777s after mid-air explosion ripped engine into pieces

[Disir]

Federal Aviation Administration administrator Steve Dickson has ordered the agency's aviation safety experts to issue an Emergency Airworthiness Directive, requiring "immediate or stepped-up inspections of Boeing 777 airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines."

FAA demands emergency inspection of select Boeing 777s after midair explosion ripped engine into pieces

Boeing says it recommends "suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines until the FAA identifies the appropriate inspection protocol."

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That is crazy. I would have been freaking out.

 

[fncceo]

There are worse ways to die...

 

[pknopp]

777's are grounded in Japan. It can't be long before the taxpayers have to give Boeing billions. (not that we don't already)

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I love how the media takes stupid and runs with it. The engine did not 'explode" of there would be no aircraft remaining. It is obvious from the damage it was a compressor failure. It is not a good situation, but also not too uncommon in jet aircraft.