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Regulators to require inspections after jet engine explosion

In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018 frame from video, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator examines damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane
that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia.
Associated Press
By DAVID KOENIG and CLAUDIA after the engine manufacturer rec- plane made an emergency land- an engine broke apart on another
LAUER ommended the additional inspec- ing in Philadelphia. Southwest Boeing 737 over Florida
Associated Press tions, and a month after European Federal investigators said a blade in 2016. That led engine manufac-
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators ordered their airlines to that broke off in mid-flight was turer CFM International, a joint ven-
regulators said Wednesday they do the work. showing signs of metal fatigue — ture of General Electric Co. and
will order inspections on engine fan Pressure for the FAA to act grew microscopic cracks that can splin- France’s Safran SA, to recommend
blades like the one that snapped after an engine on a Southwest jet ter open under the kind of stress last June that airlines conduct the
off and triggered a fatal accident blew apart Tuesday, showering the placed on jetliners and their en- inspections of fan blades on many
on a Southwest Airlines jet. plane with debris and shattering a gines. The National Transportation Boeing 737s.
The move by the Federal Aviation window. A woman sitting next to Safety Board also blamed metal
Administration comes nearly a year the window died of her injuries. The fatigue in preliminary findings after Continued on Page 3