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There is no indication this is a Boeing issue. First off the Boeing 777 has been in widespread service for about 25 years. Secondly Boeing doesn’t make engines,
by throwawaysea 6y ago
There is no indication this is a Boeing issue. First off the Boeing 777 has been in widespread service for about 25 years. Secondly Boeing doesn’t make engines, companies like GE and Rolls Royce and P&W do. And lastly, this is most likely the result of a United mechanic making an error of some kind while performing maintenance on the aircraft. Let’s wait for investigations to complete before jumping to conclusions.
- mulmen 6y agoYou don't know that. The mechanic could have been following a P&W procedure that did not account for some wear in the engine. Is that mechanic even a United employee or P&W or a contractor? The mechanic could have installed the wrong part. It could have been a totally random part failure. I can go on. There's too many possibilities to speculate at this point. Reports say the engine was vibrating before the cowling came off. That could be caused by many factors. It could have been a bird strike. The plane in front could have lost an engine or tire and this one sucked up FOD. We just do not know yet. The plane landed, the engine will be inspected.
- throwawaysea 6y agoI don’t know that, but with the present lack of information I was venturing a low information guess simply because the aircraft is otherwise very reliable in all its variants. In any case it looks like groundings are currently being ordered only for 777s with the P&W engines because they uniquely have hollow fan blades.