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Japan Airlines to retire 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney engines after United incident
Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) said it had retired its fleet of 13 Boeing Co 777s with Pratt & Whitney engines a year earlier than planned, having suspended operations in February after an engine on a United Airlines plane shed debris. "JAL has decided to accelerate the retirement of all P&W equipped Boeing 777 by March 2021, which (was) originally planned by March 2022," the Japanese airline said on Monday in a notice on its website. JAL said it would use newer Airbus SE A350s on… (finance.yahoo.com) المزيد...
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Sometimes the best of intensions fail, in hindsight the design of the 4077 blade set up the failure mode and the TAI inspection process was questionable at best. As an Engineer with over 50 years in and around the aviation world, I think all designs must ere on the side of conservative material properties and I have my doubts about the growing size of fan blades especially on two engine aircraft flying over long expanses of ocean
The verb is "err" not ere. Sorry to be such a grammar nazi. Good comment!
What's also sad is that JAL is going to Airbus rather than Boeing or other US manufacturers. Next will be a China aircraft manufacture.
Just remembered... Didn't Boeing Aircraft drop the A-bombs on Japan?
Well after Japan brutally attacked the US in Pearl Harbor...
Good move. Old planes need to be replaced.
