Dutch Authorities Probing Inflight Failure of Another PW4000

Dutch investigators have yet to provide further details on Saturday’s engine failure on a Longtail Aviation Boeing 747-400 cargo plane in which pieces of the airplane’s PW4000-94 turbofan—a smaller version of the PW4000-112 that failed on a United Airlines 777-200 on the same day—rained down on the Dutch town of Meerssen. The Bermuda-registered jet, which had just taken off from Maastricht Aachen Airport (MST) on a flight to New York JFK Airport when the incident occurred, made an emergency… (www.ainonline.com) Mehr...