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Aviation incident ENG18IA036

NONE · Boeing 757 · 2018-09-06 · Atlanta, GA, USA

Event

NTSB number
ENG18IA036
Event ID
20180913X21320
Type
Incident
Date
2018-09-06
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Coordinates
33.750141, -84.389007

Injuries

Highest injury
NONE
Fatal
0
Serious
0
Minor
0
Uninjured
0
Total aboard
0

Aircraft

Make
Boeing
Model
757
Registration
N668DN
FAR Part
121
Engines
2
Damage
MINR

Conditions

Light
NR
Weather
Unk

Probable cause

A right engine turbine uncontainment resulting from failure of the high pressure turbine (HPT) lenticular seal due to a fatigue crack originating from an overheated region at a knife edge tip. Contributing to the failure was Pratt & Whitney’s decision to introduce the temperature-resistant knife-edge coating as a new-part number lenticular seal on an attrition basis without the option to recoat existing lenticular seals, which delayed implementation of the more durable seal material into the fleet.

Source

Authoritative
NTSB CAROL
Machine
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