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[777] loses cowling on departure from DEN
03-04-2021, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by C5Drvr
The blade inspections take approximately 8 hours per blade, and P&W could only process blades at the rate of 10 sets of 22 per engine per month. 88 total 777-200s delivered worldwide. Not sure how many are still in service total, but it will probably take a while for the worldwide fleet to get inspected. It's gonna be expensive in lost revenue and maintenance.
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03-06-2021, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Especially if they have to do it repetitively on a short interval, didn't this one fail around 2000 hours?
03-06-2021, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by YAKflyer
I may be mistaken, but the intervals between inspections is measured in cycles and not hours. I believe the blades on the engine in the DEN incident had about 2600 cycles and after the HNL failure the FAA mandated the inspection interval be reduced to 6500 cycles.
03-06-2021, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
Purely a swag, but my guess is this may be the final nail in the coffin of P&W powered 777’s at UAL. They were talking about retiring the older 200 series 777’s anyway.
03-06-2021, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
They're probably going to have to redesign the blades, not particularly quick or cheap (but better than an N2 problem).
03-06-2021, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
My guess is that the older 777 in our fleet are not going to be economically viable in regards to blade redesign.
03-06-2021, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Airhoss
My guess is that the older 777 in our fleet are not going to be economically viable in regards to blade redesign.
03-06-2021, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
They're probably going to have to redesign the blades, not particularly quick or cheap (but better than an N2 problem).
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