Word: ducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...documents uncovered by the Glenn committee indicated that a major concern at the Hanford facility was the release of huge numbers of plutonium particles. The problem, dating at least to 1947, was traced to corroded fan duct work in the stacks of two chemical separation plants...
Shortly after the officers left the room, a facilities maintenance worker put duct tape over the two-square-foot hole in the window...
...flipped over in a snowstorm while taking off from Denver, killing 28. Though investigators suspect that accident may have been caused by wing icing and pilot inexperience, the company's airlines have suffered numerous mechanical problems. In one case last October, a worker inadvertently carried a 14-in. plastic duct past a running engine on an A300 Airbus, which sucked the part out of his hands and into its intake. According to the carrier's machinists' union, a mechanic wanted to take the engine apart, but a foreman overruled him, and four months later the engine blew up after...
...mechanic at O'Hare found a damaged duct on a DC-9's engine in April and reported to his supervisor that it would pose a fire hazard if the engine overheated. The supervisor nonetheless cleared the aircraft to take off for Pittsburgh. The horrified mechanic called FAA but could not reach an official before the plane left Chicago. In Pittsburgh, FAA grounded the aircraft while the engine was replaced. The pilot had not been warned that he was flying with a potential fire problem...
...play duct ven I come to see him in the big-a-house, on the visiting...