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YVR Cockroach Dec 17, 2002 1:18 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by B747-437B:
I'm not familiar with the NZ 767 incident, but the CX incident was a fully contained failure. Uncontained failures are EXTREMELY rare occurances and usually warrant an immediate diversion and grounding of the aircraft.
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The CX incident seems to have been blown out of proportion more than it was if the failure was contained? The NZ 767 indicent was rather severe with engine, wing and engine mount perforations. Very closeup pictures were pubished on a webpage that has since been pulled.

Was this the same type of incident (and engine) that resulted in the US 762 being written off?

B747-437B Dec 17, 2002 1:32 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by terenz:
The CX incident seems to have been blown out of proportion more than it was if the failure was contained? The NZ 767 indicent was rather severe with engine, wing and engine mount perforations. Was this the same type of incident (and engine) that resulted in the US 762 being written off? </font>
The CX incident was blown way out of proportion. The flight suffered a simple inflight shutdown and didn't even divert, but rather continued on to its destination of JFK where it was fixed and returned home within 2 days.

Yes, the NZ and US incidents were with the same type of engine and aircraft.

audio-nut Dec 17, 2002 5:13 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by terenz:
The a/c is question was reported as having returned to HKG last week. I doubt if CX does keep a spare in JFK. Perhaps it was a freighter (it would have the small bubble of a 747-100/200).</font>
That is probaly it except for i thought i saw winglets.

YVR Cockroach Dec 17, 2002 6:13 pm
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by audio-nut:
That is probaly it except for i thought i saw winglets.</font>
747-400Fs have the small bubble but have the -400 wing (so they have winglets).


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