Boeing 787’s Debris-Spewing GE Engine to Be Dismantled in Probe

Boeing Co. is pulling an engine off a new 787 Dreamliner and trucking it this week to General Electric Co.’s facility in Cincinnati, where it will be dismantled to find out why it spewed debris over the weekend.
A visual inspection yesterday showed that damage was limited to the back end of the engine and doesn’t indicate a fleet-wide problem, said Rick Kennedy, a spokesman for GE. The cause is “far from being determined” because a team will have to tear the engine apart and examine it piece by piece, he said.
Debris blew out of the engine during a July 28 high-speed taxi test of an Air India Ltd. 787 at the Charleston, South Carolina, airport near Boeing’s new factory there, igniting a fire in the grass along the runway and temporarily diverting and delaying flights.
31/07/12 Susanna Ray/Bloomberg News/SF Gate

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