I don’t want to challenge his theory since he is a RR contractor but that does not sound right from any angle.

Ash gets into the engine internal air system, blocks the cooling supply to the disc, the disc heats up and then fails????? Maybe????
Needles to say when the experts get all the infomation the cause will be discovered.
Has any body seen any close up pictures of the engine yet?

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Stuff happens.

I had a similar phrase in mind
It’s Qantas’s turn in the barrel! every incident involving a QF flight will be headline news for the next week of so. Also the law of sod dictates that Qantas will have another incident in the next week or so with an engine.

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I have always been under the impression that engine cowlings are designed to contain an engine failure and this is because if an engine failure is uncontained the debris from the failure might penetrate the pressure cabin. Such a penetration could be disastrous.

The engine cowlings are not designed to contain an engine failure. The engine fan, compressor and turbine cases are designed to contain a blade failure. This looks like a compressor DISC failure. Nothing will contain a disc failure. Disc failures are very rare and, almost always result in parts of the disc rupturing the engine case.

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Cking. You maybe should look at the date within your last post :rolleyes:

Keith. ?

Well done Keith…. I was wondering who would spot that first!;)
OK October. I’m on shift and I wil go and have a look at the beast.

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Ah yes, the classic -300 nose first landing damage!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Royal-Air-Maroc/Boeing-767-36N-ER/1538735/M/

There is another one on the british register that has done it (No names, no pack drill;)) and my contact at an American airline says that he is aware of, at least two similar incidents with his airline.
It is not un common.
Now before people start saying “Cut and shut”, it’s a BIG repair and the Boeing repair team are the only people who do it.

Que “Cut and shut” coments!!!:;)

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What is the Swedish for “Phantom”?
I’m just thinking that Viggen means Thunderbolt and Draken means Dragon, perhaps another aircraft’s name translates into Phantom?

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Rhymes with “Height”…..

Why do they think that people will buy this stuff??? I personaly havn’t got room, what with all my “Diana, princess of hart’s” and “Queen Mum, gawd bless er” clocks!

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