Sorry for the thread drift, but I must comment on this out of place misinformation.
First, please read the NTSB report about UAL 232.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/...y/AAR9006.html
My dad did the crash investigation out in the corn fields amongst body parts, so this simplistic inappropriate comment has no place in a conversation about a Facebook page that wasn't in existence when this happened.
Second, blamed on maintenance? Uhh...kind of. GE made 2 different fan discs with that SN. One had a hard alpha inclusion in the titanium, manufacturing defect to the uninitiated. It was widely believed that GE destroyed the wrong disc and that the flawed one was put into service. However, there was no proof so the theory never made it into the NTSB final report.
UAL had just started a MX inspection program that would have revealed the flaw, but that particular engine had not had a chance to go through overhaul since the new procedure. The irony is that this new inspection device did not exist at the time the disc was made and would have unequivocally spotted the defect.
Now, here's the sticky part, since UAL had this X-ray machine, and approved for inspection, the NTSB put the blame on UAL for not having inspected the incident engine, even though it was not required to do so until the next major overhaul.
You want more details that never made it to the report, PM me, but don't spout half truths about either airline when people died, very uncool.
