Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
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Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#2More info and photos.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb6a09d&opt=0
Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#3Small shards (in great numbers) that according to a witness on the ground were burning or very hot sounds a lot like (pieces of) blades from the turbine or stator/guide vanes. In both cases it's a very significant engine failure.
Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#4More info and photos. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb6a09d&opt=0
Those are the same photos.
Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#5More info and photos. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb6a09d&opt=0
Those metal bits look big enough to kill a person. I mean, anything havier than a marble falling from high enough will do a lot of damage, right?
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#6https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/08/12/norwegian...
The plane in question was a 5.5-year-old Boeing 787-8 with the registration LN-LND. The parts are believed to have come from the left engine, a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, a model that has been plagued with problems.
Link about the problems: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/rolls-royce-problems-trent-100...
Cracking problems in the intermediate pressure (IPT) section of the turbine have plagued the engine since early 2016, five years after its launch. Unscheduled groundings of Trent 1000-powered aircraft cost Rolls-Royce some £450m last year, and Horwood said that addressing the problem was “the single most important issue” currently facing the company.
One of Rolls-Royce’s most important potential customers for Trent 1000, Air New Zealand, recently announced that it has opted for General Electric power-plants for a new batch of 787-10 airliners, although its 787-9 fleets still fly with Trent engines.
I'm reminded of all the jokes Jeremy Clarkson makes at Rolls Royce's expense...
Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#7Curious if this was before or after Rolls-Royce thought they'd fixed it.
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#8This really doesn't make me feel very confident about getting on a 787 for a 14 hour flight next week.
Re: Metal shards from Boeing 787 taking off over Rome rain down on people below
#9More info and photos. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb6a09d&opt=0
Those metal bits look big enough to kill a person. I mean, anything havier than a marble falling from high enough will do a lot of damage, right?
If thing is small and heavy - yes.
If thing has a surface to it - it could fall significantly slower.
That said anything-metal falling from the sky is dangerous.
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#10Oh, and it's raining again
Light on your car light, bullets on tin.