There is reports that the leading edge of the wing has been damaged above #4 engine and #4 cowling disintegrated

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pugman211 wrote:Wow! That is Some serious damage! Is the whole front fan missing or just the cowling??
Is this a GE or RR engine?
ikolkyo wrote:pugman211 wrote:Wow! That is Some serious damage! Is the whole front fan missing or just the cowling??
Is this a GE or RR engine?
GE/PW
qf789 wrote:ikolkyo wrote:pugman211 wrote:Wow! That is Some serious damage! Is the whole front fan missing or just the cowling??
Is this a GE or RR engine?
GE/PW
They have the GP7200 powerplant
atcsundevil wrote:Must be an engine failure? I can't think of any other reason an aircraft at cruise would receive such damage.
Btblue wrote:atcsundevil wrote:Must be an engine failure? I can't think of any other reason an aircraft at cruise would receive such damage.
Out of curiosity googled birds and migration, Swans can fly at 27,000 and a type of goose flies at 29,000 feet but this flight was flying higher so rules out that possibility and looks like engine failure.
Gonzalo wrote:I'm sure someone with the proper knowledge here will correct me if I'm wrong, but this could be as serious as the QF incident years ago, this time they had more luck and apparently the fragments didn't cause the same amount of damage, they had luck the fan blades and all the other missing parts flew away from the aircraft in the wingtip direction, it will be a very different story if those fragments depart towards the fuselage/engine 3...
Gonzalo wrote:I'm sure someone with the proper knowledge here will correct me if I'm wrong, but this could be as serious as the QF incident years ago, this time they had more luck and apparently the fragments didn't cause the same amount of damage, they had luck the fan blades and all the other missing parts flew away from the aircraft in the wingtip direction, it will be a very different story if those fragments depart towards the fuselage/engine 3...
jeffrey0032j wrote:Gonzalo wrote:I'm sure someone with the proper knowledge here will correct me if I'm wrong, but this could be as serious as the QF incident years ago, this time they had more luck and apparently the fragments didn't cause the same amount of damage, they had luck the fan blades and all the other missing parts flew away from the aircraft in the wingtip direction, it will be a very different story if those fragments depart towards the fuselage/engine 3...
If we are just looking at the engine and not the impact on the airframe, at first glance, this looks more serious than QF32. The fan is gone.
shankly wrote:I bet that was a bang and a half. Amazing pictures and super job by the crew
One assumes complication here will be lack of significant parts as transit was oceanic. At least with the RR QF 32 the locals brought the ejected parts back on their mopeds
Interesting times ahead for the GP7200
neutronstar73 wrote:Engine Alliance will need to do some serious investigation, as I'm sure this will not make Emirates feel comfortable, along with all the other GP7x users.
Gonzalo wrote:I'm on the phone so I don't know how to insert pictures here but in the avherald report there is a picture of the engine from a different angle, if someone can bring it here would be great.
Rgds.
G.
jeffrey0032j wrote:at first glance, this looks more serious than QF32. The fan is gone.
LAX772LR wrote:jeffrey0032j wrote:at first glance, this looks more serious than QF32. The fan is gone.
Hardly.
Besides, QF was more about hydraulic damage and loss of control. Doesn't appear to be the case at all here.
LAX772LR wrote:jeffrey0032j wrote:at first glance, this looks more serious than QF32. The fan is gone.
Hardly.
Besides, QF was more about hydraulic damage and loss of control. Doesn't appear to be the case at all here.
KLDC10 wrote:jeffrey0032j wrote:Gonzalo wrote:I'm sure someone with the proper knowledge here will correct me if I'm wrong, but this could be as serious as the QF incident years ago, this time they had more luck and apparently the fragments didn't cause the same amount of damage, they had luck the fan blades and all the other missing parts flew away from the aircraft in the wingtip direction, it will be a very different story if those fragments depart towards the fuselage/engine 3...
If we are just looking at the engine and not the impact on the airframe, at first glance, this looks more serious than QF32. The fan is gone.
Purely in terms of the engine, the damage is significant. You seem familiar with QF32, but for those that aren't, let me just explain that in the latter case, the engine failure (specifically a turbine disk failure) resulted in significant damage to the flight controls and wing. While we don't know for sure what happened in this Air France incident, the fact that they got it on the ground very quickly suggests that they did not experience the same kind of control problems as those which struck QF32. In fact in the Qantas case the situation was so bad that the pilots were unable to turn off the No.1 engine after bringing the plane to the ground - it eventually flamed out after the airport fire crew sprayed it for a full three hours.
qf789 wrote:According to the avherald the engine failure occurred about 2 hours before landing
http://avherald.com/h?article=4af15205&opt=0