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The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) issued an pressing security advice Wednesday to change jet engines on Boeing’s 737 Max airplanes to stop smoke from coming into the cockpit or cabin in sure situations.
The warning comes after two incidents involving Southwest Airways planes geared up with CFM Worldwide LEAP-1B engines that skilled chicken strikes in 2023.
The NTSB mentioned that these CFM engines have a security characteristic, known as a load discount gadget, that may inadvertently harm the oil system of the engines as soon as it prompts after a chicken strike. The harm may end up in smoke forming from sizzling oil launched into the engine and coming into the air flow system and in the end the cockpit or passenger cabin.
The NTSB investigated an incident in December 2023 involving a Southwest Airways airplane that struck a chicken whereas taking off from New Orleans. The airplane landed shortly after “acrid white smoke” stuffed the cockpit and was so thick that the captain mentioned it was laborious to see the instrument panel.
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A closeup of an engine of a Boeing 737 Max airplane. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File / Reuters Images)
One other incident 9 months earlier involving comparable engine harm occurred on one other Southwest flight from Havana, Cuba, after birds have been ingested into an engine shortly after takeoff, leading to smoke filling the cabin.
In each instances, the flights landed safely, and nobody was injured.
A Boeing 737 Max plane throughout a show on the Farnborough Worldwide Airshow, in Farnborough, Britain, July 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Peter Cziborra / Reuters Images)
The NTSB additionally really helpful evaluating the potential for a similar subject with CFM’s LEAP-1A and LEAP-1C engines, that are used on some Airbus A320neo planes and C919 jets made by the Industrial Plane Company of China.
CFM is owned by GE Aerospace and Safran Plane Engines.
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The Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing each mentioned they agreed with the NTSB suggestions and have already warned airways and pilots about the issue.
A Boeing 737 Max is displayed throughout the Worldwide Paris Air Present on the Paris Le Bourget Airport, on June 20, 2023. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/AFP by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“We advised operators to evaluate their procedures and crew training to ensure they address this potential issue,” the FAA mentioned. “When the engine manufacturer develops a permanent mitigation, we will require operators to implement it within an appropriate timeframe.”
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Boeing mentioned that CFM and Boeing “have been working on a software design update.”
Reuters contributed to this report.
