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Japan grounds 31 PW4000-powered 777s after United incident

Japan has grounded Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, following the PW4077 failure aboard a United Airlines 777-200 on 20 February. Japan has grounded Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, following the PW4077 failure...

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Dutch probe shedding of 747 freighter engine parts over Maastricht

Dutch investigators have opened an initial probe into an incident in which a Boeing 747-400 freighter apparently shed engine parts after departure from Maastricht. The aircraft had “engine problems” and lost several metal parts after it took off from Maastricht-Aachen...

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United 777’s failed PW4000 appears uncontained, forward cowling missing

The 20 February failure of a Boeing 777-200’s Pratt & Whitney PW4077 turbofan was apparently an uncontained failure, with images showing damage similar to a 2018 event. The 20 February failure of a Boeing 777-200’s Pratt & Whitney PW4077 turbofan...

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United 777 suffers engine failure over Denver

A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 suffered an engine failure just minutes after taking off, strewing debris across a Denver neighbourhood. A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 suffered an engine failure just minutes after taking off, strewing debris across a Denver neighbourhood. The aircraft...

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Klyde Morris (02.19.21)

Klyde Starts Putting The Pieces Together... FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Look Out Below! Perseverance Sends Sneak Peek Just Prior To Touchdown

The Majority Of Perseverance's Cameras Capture Images In Color (YAY!) Less than a day after NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were...

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Eagle Researchers Receive FAA Grants to Assure Drone Safety

ERAU Researchers Have Been Granted About $500k Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University researchers received four FAA grants this month to assess risks and help develop safety protocols for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, as they are increasingly integrated into such uses...

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AD: The Boeing Company Airplanes

AD 2021-02-19 Repetitive General Visual Inspections Of The Bilge Barriers Located In The Forward And Aft Cargo Compartments The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain The Boeing Company Model 787-8, 787-9, and 787-10 airplanes. This AD...

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AFGSC Begins Retirement Of B-1 Aircraft, Paving Way For B-21

17 B-1B Aircraft Will Be Retired From The Current Fleet Of 62 B-1s In support of its efforts to modernize America’s bomber fleet, the Air Force will begin divesting 17 B-1B Lancers from its current fleet as authorized by the...

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Air Methods Signs Additional HCare Support Contract For 80 EC135s

New Contract Will Extend The Number Of Air Methods Helicopters Covered By HCare To 111 Air Methods Corporation has signed another HCare support contract with Airbus Helicopters Inc., this time to cover its fleet of EC135 helicopters – the largest...

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