Failed GE jet engine in O'Hare fire had manufacturing flaw: NTSB
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AN engine on an American Airlines plane that exploded on a Chicago airport runway on Oct 28, triggering a massive blaze, had an apparent manufacturing defect, US investigators say.
A disk within the General Electric Co (GE) CF6-80 engine had an "internal inclusion", meaning some type of foreign debris was embedded within the special alloy designed to withstand the heat and high stresses of a jet engine, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a statement last Friday.
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