Rolls Failure Probed
Australian investigators will review engine maintenance records as they look for the cause of the uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce RB211-524G engine on a Qantas Airways Boeing 747-400 on Aug. 30. The intermediate turbine of the No. 4 engine disintegrated 15 min. after takeoff from San Francisco...
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