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By Bill Galluccio Feb 23, 2021 NTSB Chairman  Robert Sumwalt explained that the metal fatigue caused one of the fan blades on the plane's right engine to break off and hit another blade in the engine. Investigators have taken the fan blade to a lab where they will inspect it and try to determine how long it was damaged before it failed. Boeing announced that it was grounding all airplanes that were equipped with the Pratt & Whitney 4000 engine. That impacts 69 jets that are currently in service and 59 that are currently in storage. United Airlines is the only American carrier that has je...

There have been several incidents in the past few years of issues relating to the Pratt & Whitney engine.

(Photo : Mario Tama) A United Airlines plane takes off above American Airlines planes on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on October 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. The bursting of an airplane engine, just like the United Airlines Flight 328, is not the first time in history, leaving questions as to why these anomalies keep on happening. Fortunately, the incident that led the recent flight of United Airlines to Denver's emergency land did not involve any casualties. NBC News reports that according to experts, there at least two other similar blowouts on at least tw...

There have been several incidents in the past few years of issues relating to the Pratt & Whitney engine.

PICTURED - The broken fan blade that caused the Denver air explosion: Engine piece snapped off mid-flight because of 'wear and tear', sparked fire and fell onto soccer field, investigators say Investigators believe a damaged fan blade broke off the Boeing 777 engine, chipping off part of a second one 'A preliminary on-scene exam indicates damage consistent with metal fatigue,' NTSB's Robert Sumwalt said  Pictures of the aircraft in a hangar at Denver Airport yesterday show the damage to the engine up close Recovered fan blade parts are being flown to a Pratt & Whitney laboratory and will be ...