Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: More on the Air India Crash Message-ID: <11511@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 17:25:20 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11511 Posted: Thu Jul 11 17:25:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:31:58 EDT References: <1984@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <11505@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 23 > >> > >> The New York Times quoted a report in the Montreal Gazette saying that > >> the Air-India crash might have occurred because > >> of the structural breakdown of the plane caused > >> by it carrying a fifth defective engine. > >> According to the Air-India office as well as the > >> Boeing company spokesman, this was a routine > >> practice by all airlines and such an act could > >> not have caused a structural breakdown in the > >> plane. > >> > Does anyone have any idea as to what the paragraph above means? Does it > indicate that the plane had a fifth engine somewhere on board? (In the > cargo hold? Would a 747 engine fit inside the cargo space of a > passenger-carrying 747 version?) Or does it mean that one engine had been > replaced five times, due to defects, and that the repeated replacements > caused weakening? Or what? I don't know about the Air India situation, but the common way to transport engines on 747 is to strap the extra one below the wing. Looks kind of silly, but I guess it's the most econmical arrangement -Ron