Turbine Blade Replacement Underway For All Nippon Airways', Japan Airlines' Boeing 777s

All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines are replacing the secondary blades in the high-pressure turbines of the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines for their Boeing 777 fleets. Airline officials said some blades were experiencing unusually high erosion rates that prompted recurrent inspections. As a...

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