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While it will take weeks, even months, for investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to determine exactly why American Airlines 587 plunged to the ground, some aviation safety experts are already focusing on the aircraft's engines. The General Electric-manufactured CF6 engines that power the Airbus A300 and several other large aircraft have raised concerns within the industry for several years...
...There are some 1,400 CF6 engines in use worldwide on planes including Boeing 747s, 767s and Airbus 300s, and there are four thousand CF6-equipped airplane takeoffs each day. It's a common engine, but it has had problems. In a sternly worded report last December, the NTSB warned that the CF6 engines presented a potentially "catastrophic" threat. The NTSB recommended to the FAA that it take action, including a review of the design of the engine's high pressure turbine disc because of a number of dangerous incidents in the past few years...
...barrier. What the public won't see is the multiple titanium locks that the pilots slide in place once the door is shut. The doors, which were designed by JetBlue's own engineers, are costing the privately-held JetBlue about $10,000 each for their 18 Airbus A320 airplanes...
...little guys skipped the interim solutions favored by majors like United and American, such as rigging a horizontal bar across the cockpit door, chiefly because they could: the big carriers have hundreds of planes to retrofit, and that takes time and money. Frontier, which has both Boeing and Airbus aircraft in its 31-plane fleet, decided that the bars weren't up to the job. "[That bar] is simply a feel-good measure," says one pilot from a major carrier. Frontier's engineers were unable to find any acceptable hardened cockpit doors quickly and eventually built their own from scratch...
SULTAN OF BRUNEI Brother's $15 billion spree leads to auction of palatial trimmings. Airbus, anyone...