Originally Posted by
Arado 234
On a technical basis, you have the Southwest flight with the blown up engine that killed a pax (I was told by one of our AA check airmen that WN puts 3 or 4 times more hours on the engine before it gets overhauled).
Uh-huh. So the biggest operator of CFM56s in the world is running their engines "3 or 4 times more hours" between overhauls than....what...CFM's recommendations? Surely not. This sounds like 5th-hand information that has been given the appropriate embellishments along the way by several peeps with an anti-SWA agenda.
