Originally Posted by
PHLGovFlyer
We don't know the complete nature of the failure, but it sounds like a turbine blade from the core of the engine (not the front fan that everyone sees) broke off and damaged the engine core. This is not as uncommon as folks think and its rarely catastrophic, even on an airliner flying full of pax.
To characterize this as "Exploding engines" is a bit strong IMO.
I would also go further to suppose that a delay to the program is too early to consider because they likely don't know if it is simply an engine issue or if there is another problem with the airframe itself.