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February 22, 2021 The FAA has ordered United Airlines to step up inspections of the aircraft after the engine of one blew apart over Denver on Saturday. SHOW TRANSCRIPT Boeing says airlines should ground all 777 airplanes with the same type of engine that blew apart over Denver on Saturday. Pieces of the casing of the engine, which is a Pratt & Whitney PW4000, rained down on suburban neighborhoods. Fortunately, no one was hurt and the flight landed safely.  According to Boeing, there are 69 pl...

South Korea has ordered its airlines to inspect Boeing 777 jets with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 type engines, the transport ministry said on Tuesday.

The U.S. subsidiary of Germany-based forwarder Dachser is increasing its Europe-U.S. airfreight service due to demand, adding a midweek flight between Frankfurt (FRA) and Chicago (ORD) using an American Airlines-operated 777 passenger freighter. The 777 operation is in addition to Dachser’s current FRA-ORD offering, which utilizes a 747-400 freighter departing FRA on Saturdays, according to […]   Username

Pictures have emerged of the damage done to the United Airlines 777-200 that suffered an uncontained engine failure of one of its P&W 4000 engines on Saturday. While most of the debris showered down on the neighborhood below some penetrate the aircraft’s structure. However, the area impacted is not the fuselage itself but an outer […]

After the engine failure, the FAA ordered an inspection and United Airlines suspended production of 24 Boeing 777s . United Airlines said on Sunday that it will temporarily cancel service of 24 Boeing 777 aircraft after an emergency landing of the engine

5 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Damage to a fan blade on an engine that failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777 flight is consistent with metal fatigue, based on a preliminary assessment, the chairman of the U.S. air accident investigator said on Monday. The Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine failed on Saturday with a “loud bang” four minutes after takeoff from Denver, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters following an initial analysis of the flight ...

Boeing has recommended that airlines ground all 777s with the type of engine that blew apart after takeoff from Denver this past weekend.

February 22, 2021 After a United Airlines jet rained engine debris over a Denver suburb, some regulators are banning planes with the engine from their airspace. SHOW TRANSCRIPT A United Airlines flight with more than 200 people on board was able to safely return to Denvers airport Saturday after one of its engines blew apart. But the serious threat to people on the ground below has regulators worried it could happen again, and demanding swift inspections.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson said Tuesday the agency is acting quickly to finalize a new emergency airworthiness directive that will require stepped-up inspections of all Boeing 777-200 airplanes with Pratt & Whitney PW400 engines after an engine...

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