A fan blade on a jet engine snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane last month in a violent failure that sent debris slamming into the plane, according to a preliminary investigative report released ...

DALLAS — The Federal Aviation Administration is calling for more frequent, ongoing inspections of tens of thousands of engine fan blades in airline fleets across the U.S. to check for “unsafe ...

The 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is transforming the way companies in many industries are manufacturing their products, and the aerospace industry is no exception. For example, aircraft ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The engine explosion aboard a Southwest Airlines jetliner puts new pressure on airlines and regulators to act faster to inspect the fan blades that may have snapped off and triggered ...

General Electric’s GEnx engine successfully completed its fan blade containment test this week at the company’s Peebles, Ohio outdoor test facility. “We are very pleased with the test, which validates ...

An engine on a United Airlines jet broke up over the Denver metro area in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that was not adequately inspected for signs of cracking, federal investigators ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was ...