Re: AA MD-80 Engine Fails at LGA, Drops Parts in College Point
From the Chicago Tribune:
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American Airlines faces maintenance questions, defends work on jet with failed engine
March 13, 2009
FT. WORTH, Texas - American Airlines said the engine failure that caused a jet to make an emergency landing in New York on Wednesday may have been caused by an object—something other than a bird—sucked into the engine.
An American spokesman on Thursday defended the maintenance of the jet.
Pieces of one of the two engines on the jet, which took off from LaGuardia Airport and landed at nearby JFK Airport, were found embedded in the fuselage, and other debris landed on a home.
American mechanics, federal inspectors and representatives of enginemaker Pratt & Whitney will inspect the engine at the airline's maintenance facility in Tulsa, Okla., American spokesman Tim Smith said.
