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To: FreedomPoster
Yes, I saw that story too. Did an emergency diversion, they sent a 747 to pick up the passengers. Somewhere in Asia IIRC.

I wonder who made the engines?

They're either:

  1. General Electric GE90
  2. Pratt & Whitney PW4000
  3. Rolls Royce Trent 800

Failure of a "stub pipe" deep within the hot section of a Rolls Royce Trent 900 nearly caused the crash of an Airbus A380 on 4 November 2010. The engine underwent an uncontained failure of a second-stage (IPT) turbine disk.

101 posted on 07/06/2013 12:32:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Steely Tom
My guess:

1) Bird strike through right engine on approach

2) Loss of power on landing

3) Right wing and tail impact runway hard

4) Right wing tip rips away and tail breaks off on impact

5) Heavy impact collapses all landing gear

6) Sudden impact triggers fire in fuselage

7) Jet skids down runway

138 posted on 07/06/2013 12:43:10 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Steely Tom
I am not sure but correct me if I am wrong but I think GE now has the exclusive to build those engines for the 777 now.
When the 777 was first developed and built it was P&W.
516 posted on 07/06/2013 3:26:31 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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