Huge chunks of plane: What it looked like when a Pratt & Whitney jet engine exploded
Katie Dowd
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On Saturday, Feb. 20, residents of a Broomfield, Colo., neighborhood saw large chunks of a plane falling from the sky. Huge portions of the right engine, pieces of fiberglass and flakes of insulation rained down, just missing a home.
United Airlines Flight 328 on its was to Hawaii when its engine experienced a failure. The plane was able to land safely and no injuries were reported.
The engine on the Boeing 777-200 jet was a PW4000-112, made by Connecticut-based Pratt & Whitney. The company is now at the center of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. Federal aviation regulators ordered United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with that type of engine. United said it is temporarily removing those 24 aircraft from service.
If conditions are favorable, Middletown school board to reexamine sending older students back
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Middletown Public Schools students and educators have been working in hybrid mode since the start of the academic year in September. Here, second-grade student works behind a protection shield at a socially distanced desk at Wesley Elementary School.Contributed photo / Allison Shelley for ‘American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action’
MIDDLETOWN Board of Education officials are reassuring parents advocating for a full return to in-person classes for all students that they intend to reexamine their decision to send primary school students back to classes nearly every day while keeping higher grades in a hybrid format.
Air Force cuts back exhibition flights on new F-35 engine woes
Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg
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A U.S. Marine Corps. F-35B Lightning II fighter jet performs maneuvers during the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on Feb. 11, 2020.Bloomberg photo by SeongJoon Cho.
The Air Force F-35 jet team that performs at air shows around the world has had to scale back appearances this year. The problem: a growing shortage of engines because of longer repair periods, some due to previously unreported shortcomings with engine blade coatings.
The Air Combat Command that controls the F-35 demonstration team late last month cut the number of 2021 shows by eight performances, or about one-third, to ensure the flying doesn t aggravate a worsening service-wide shortage of Raytheon Technologies Corp. engines.