{"id":306606,"date":"2019-12-21T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306606"},"modified":"2019-12-21T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T05:48:53","slug":"eu-body-issues-fresh-warning-for-a320neos%e2%80%8a-fitted-with-pw-engines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-body-issues-fresh-warning-for-a320neos%e2%80%8a-fitted-with-pw-engines-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EU body issues fresh warning for A320neos\u200a fitted with P&amp;W engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a fresh warning earlier this week about a potential dual-engine failure on Airbus A320neo family planes fitted with Pratt and Whitney (P&amp;W) engines.<\/p>\n<p>In an airworthiness report issued on Monday, EASA said low-pressure turbine blades on some P&amp;W engines on A320neo planes had low damage tolerance and could immediately \u201cfracture&#8221;, or develop cracks, on impact. \u201cThis condition, if not corrected, could lead to dual engine in-flight shutdown, possibly resulting in reduced control of the aeroplane,&#8221; the aviation regulator said and asked airlines to replace at least one, if not both, P&amp;W engines by March-end.<\/p>\n<p>EASA said airlines could replace the faulty part with improved turbine blades developed by Swiss manufacturer International Aero Engines Llc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a fresh warning earlier this week about a potential dual-engine failure on Airbus A320neo family planes fitted with Pratt and Whitney (P&amp;W) engines. In an airworthiness report issued on Monday, EASA said low-pressure turbine blades on some P&amp;W engines on A320neo planes had low damage tolerance and could immediately \u201cfracture&#8221;, or develop cracks, on impact. \u201cThis condition, if not corrected, could lead to dual engine in-flight shutdown, possibly resulting in reduced control of the aeroplane,&#8221; the aviation regulator said and asked airlines to replace at least one, if not both, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}