Investigators don't yet know what caused the engine failure that forced Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 to an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday, but it has similarities to an incident with ...

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Supercomputers are capable of a mind-boggling number of calculations and one of them just found a flaw in a piece of technology that is used around the world.

U.S. airline regulators have ordered inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off a Southwest Airlines plane, leading to the death of a woman who was partially blown out a window.

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A commercial passenger flight operated by Arik Air made an emergency landing in southern Nigeria after one of its engines exploded, causing severe damage, according to officials and safety reports.

Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and Boeing are asking the Federal Aviation Administration for more time and for regulatory exemptions as part of design changes they are making to PW4000-112 turbofans and the ...

By Tim Hepher and Rajesh Kumar Singh SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a ...