{"id":1353,"date":"2016-06-01T01:54:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T06:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2016-06-01T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T04:25:31","slug":"boeing-777-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 777 engine catches fire again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boeing 777 engine<\/strong> catches on fire again. For the second time in less than 9 months, a\u00a0Boeing 777 engine caught on fire during the start of the planes takeoff roll.\u00a0There were 302 passengers and 17 crew members\u00a0on board the Korean Air 777, and\u00a0they were all successfully\u00a0evacuated from the\u00a0airplane. The incident occurred\u00a0at the Tokyo Haneda Airport on\u00a0Friday, May 27, when\u00a0the number one engine caught on fire. The twin engine plane was headed for\u00a0Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea.\u00a0Smoke was reportedly seen coming from the planes left engine just as it was about to takeoff. There are 19 people that were reportedly injured during the aircraft evacuation.<\/p>\n

Boeing 777 engine warning had been\u00a0issued by FAA<\/h2>\n

On\u00a0September 8th, 2015, a British Airways 777 aircraft had an engine catch fire on\u00a0takeoff from the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. It came to light following that incident that the FAA had warned Boeing four years earlier that the GE90-85B engine\u00a0had an unsafe condition.\u00a0They had discovered that the compressor could possibly disintegrate and cause an explosion. This type of explosion could potentially\u00a0propel debris at a high enough rate of speed\u00a0to\u00a0endanger the\u00a0entire aircraft. General Electric\u00a0released a statement that\u00a0the British Airways 777 in Las Vegas\u00a0had a different version of its\u00a0GE90-8FB engine than the one mentioned in the\u00a0warning. The\u00a0National Transportation Safety Board investigating the British Airways engine fire stated that that incident\u00a0occurred in the same way as that previously mentioned in its warning. Boeing and General Electric both objected to that warning that was issued by the FAA, but were\u00a0unsuccessfully to get it removed from the record. As to this date, I have not ever flown on a\u00a0Boeing 777 aircraft. I have always thought since the first time I saw the aircraft that its engines were just way too big for my comfort level.<\/p>\n

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Boeing 777 engine catches on fire again. For the second time in less than 9 months, a\u00a0Boeing 777 engine caught on fire during the start of the planes takeoff roll.\u00a0There were 302 passengers and 17 crew members\u00a0on board the Korean Air 777, and\u00a0they were all successfully\u00a0evacuated from the\u00a0airplane. The incident occurred\u00a0at the Tokyo Haneda Airport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[205,41,334,335,177,336,337,338,333],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-205","tag-boeing","tag-british-airways","tag-engine","tag-faa","tag-fire","tag-ge","tag-general-electric","tag-korean-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}