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Airline Regulators Fret Over Breakups Of GE Jet Engines: Racing to Avert Any More Disentegrations
Wall Street Journal ^
| Jan 12, 2001
Posted on 11/12/2001 10:05:23 AM PST by Fixit
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To: Fixit
I used to build these engines; GE had very tight inspection controls; this author is not very familiar with physics in general and totally naive concerning jet engines in particular.
Excessive use is an airline problem, not a manufacturing problem.
Big birds have an unfortunate habit of committing suicide through "ingestion"; if I am not mistaken, the first jet-engine aircraft sucked a duck and died.
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To: Fixit
just got on mancow with the quote from the GE guy in this article bump
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11/13/2001 6:56:42 AM PST
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s2baccha
To: Fixit
Thanks for anti-tin foil post, we needed it.
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11/13/2001 7:07:20 AM PST
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petbop
To: Fixit
Just heard on NPR news that NTSB investigators are backtracking on the engine failure explanation. According to the report, investigators are "puzzled" by the scattering of the wreckage, and especially the loss of the tail section, and there are now "more questions than answers."
Looks like the "tin-foilers" and "conspiracy theorists" on here yesterday did a better job of diagnosing the situation from behind their computer keyboards than the FBI, NTSB and Gov. Pataki. Unfortunately, that means the probability is that OBL wasn't kidding when he forecast a "rain of aeroplanes."
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