WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday mandated fan blade inspections before some Boeing 777 jetliners are allowed to fly again, responding to a harrowing flight Saturday from ...

Inspections on CFM International CFM56-7B engines since an April 17 accident tied to a fractured fan blade have not revealed a fleet-wide safety issue, and investigators have determined that the ...

An anomaly in the fan-blade manufacturing process combined with insufficient inspection procedures set the stage for the June 2017 inflight failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 powering an AirAsia X ...

General Electric will sell, at a heavy discount, CF34-3B1 engine fan blades to Bombardier CRJ operators affected by a service bulletin calling for replacements to be installed over a two-year period.

At 10:43am on April 17, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 took off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport bound for Love Field in Dallas with five crew and 143 passengers aboard. But just over 20 minutes into ...