Look for a grounding notice soon, or a revocation of EROPS for RR

Not many operators selected PW engines on the B777!

The RR Trent engines have literally millions of hours in service worldwide. Time will tell.

Another reason I'd rather fly with zero-automation - because then, at least, you know exactly what is going to kill you - you don't have to guess!

As you might expect, AA, Boeing and RR have all responded quickly to this reported incident involving an AA B777.

Without going into specific details, because they have been provided in confidence, preliminary indications are that this AA incident - whilst obviously of great concern - is not currently thought to be similar in nature to the recent BA B777 accident involving G-YMMM.

Preliminary indications tentatively suggest that the AA aircraft suffered some form of autothrottle malfunction, apparently confined to the left engine, but that both engines always produced their commanded thrust levels.

Out of the thousands of flights that this aircraft has performed I would think that two related incidents of this nature so close together would be purely coincidental. Of course i fly the thing for a living so I'm leaning towards the positive side. The thing's have never so much as burped on one of our aircraft, and we have Trent powered 777's.

Some of BA 777s are GE90-powered.

Actually the engine has to FAIL, not just maintain idle...RR sucessfully defended that in a flight to AU in the last couple of years, I believe...the crew didn't shut the engine down, although they could have, and since its not an inflight engine shutdown ETOPS rules didn't apply...nice, huh?

So, you are tossing out the autopilot and flight directors on your RJ? <g>

Ok. But the one that crashed was RR, right? Seriously, I am asking?

Perhaps. But the 777 launch customer and operator of the largest fleet of 777's in the United States did choose PW. No problems with the PW that I am aware of. That is my only point.