Fire Breaks Out During Takeoff Resulting in Major Changes for Airline Safety Procedures
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The Combustor Can's Cracks
The number one engine was having slow acceleration because this combustor can was not working quite right. It was already starting to fail, but there's no way to tell that without really getting in there and disassembling it. This is why remember I said earlier that the number one engine had slow acceleration becausethis combustorCan was not workingquite right. But that was a separate issue that they were dealing with having to do with the fan blade. Yeah. So there's cracks all over this combustorcan that have gotten welded and then fixed. And those were centered. About 25% of the time. The other 90% are located at different positions around the circumference of the number nine
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