NTSB Suspects Improper Turbine Assembly In GEnx Failure

Closer inspection of a General Electric GEnx-2B engine that failed last month on a Boeing 747-8F indicates that a wrongly assembled turbine part was the likely culprit, rather than the contamination suspected as the cause of a very similar GEnx-1B problem on a 787-8 in July. The -2B failed as an Air...

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