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Discovery follows a review of all Boeing 787 and 747 engines by the National Transportation Safety Board
Engine's forward end of fan midshaft found fractured similar to one that sparked a fire off a runway in South Carolina in July
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A second cracked engine in a Boeing
Dreamliner has been found just two months after a similar plane's engine
cracked and failed during a test run that sparked a fire off its runway
in South Carolina.
Adding
further federal scrutiny to the jetliner, an investigation by the
National Transportation Safety Board uncovered the latest cracks after a
recommended review of all Boeing 787 and 747 engines by the Federal
Aviation Administration earlier this month.
After
the forward end of a fan midshaft (FMS) fractured and separated in a
General Electric GEnx-1B turbofan engine on July 28 in Charleston,
examination of other models revealed the second engine's crack.
