First official report on the burning engine on the Denver plane: it showed “fatigue” in its parts

One of the fan blades of the Boeing aircraft engine which broke down shortly after take-off from Denver’s US airport showed signs of fatigue in the metal it is made of, say researchers at the US National Transportation Safety Board. (NTSB).

The US air security regulator explained this in a performance on social networks last night that piece will be further tested.

The Boeing Company advised this Monday to suspend operations of the 69 Model 777 aircraft in service and the 59 in storage, all with engines of the type Pratt and WhitneyAfter the aforementioned incident that took place Saturday with one of them in flight.

The decision came next incident recorded last Saturday by one of these aircraft, the United Airlines flight 328, it departed from the American city of Denver, Colorado, on its way to Honolulu, Hawaii.

The ship had to return from an emergency after problems with one engine, of which parts fell on a suburb of the capital of Colorado, the authorities reported.

The NTSB confirmed that two fan blades on Flight 328’s Pratt & Whitney engine had failed, one of which could be seen Signs of fatigue on the metal and the researchers believe the second blade broke and had broken off.

The President of the NTSB, Robert Sumwalt, explained that the shovels would be sent to a Pratt & Whitney lab for further investigation by security inspectors.

“Our goal is to understand what happened and why it happened so that we can prevent it from happening again.” stressed out.

United Flight 328 231 passengers on their way to Honolulu when he had a malfunction in his right enginePassengers aboard the Denver flight described a “major explosion” shortly after takeoff and the plane began to shake violently and lose altitude.

A video shot from inside the aircraft was shown the right engine on fire and reeling in the wing of the Boeing 777-200. There were no injuries on the plane or on the ground, authorities said.

The Dutch authorities have been conducting an investigation yesterday another incident involving a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane that lost several pieces of the turbine blades after a fire, apparently in a motorcycle, after taking off from Maastricht airport with destination New York, for which he had to land in Belgium.

Two people were slightly injured in Meerssen by falling parts of the plane, which also caused damage to several houses and cars in the city.

(With information from EFE)

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