At the end of this month, United Airlines plans to begin “gradually” reintroducing to service its 52 Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 777s that have been grounded since February 2021 following an ...

A United Airlines Boeing 777 jet that suffered a catastrophic engine failure shortly after departing Denver International Airport, littering Colorado neighborhoods below with large pieces of debris, ...

Pratt & Whitney’s PW4000 engine, designed and built specifically for the Airbus A330 widebodied twinjet, has reached the milestone of five million hours in service. The PW4000-100, with a fan diameter ...

United Airlines said Tuesday it plans to resume flying the Boeing 777-200 planes equipped with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines sometime "in the future." The announcement comes two months after United ...

Pratt & Whitney and the FAA are close to approving revised inspection protocols for PW4000s that power grounded Boeing 777s, but Boeing-led work on nacelle modifications will likely push the fleet’s ...

Damage to a fan blade on an engine that failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777 flight is consistent with metal fatigue, based on a preliminary assessment, the chairman of the U.S. air accident ...

The FAA’s review of a rare Pratt & Whitney PW4000 failure scenario linked to a 2021 incident that prompted a related safety recommendation from Dutch experts reaffirmed the U.S. agency’s earlier ...

The Pratt & Whitney airplane engine that burst into flames and forced a United Airlines pilot to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Denver had similar blowouts on at least two ...

The FAA is calling for strengthening engine cowlings, enhanced engine fan-blade inspection and inspection of other systems and components. This comes after a fan blade failure prompted an engine to ...

Aviation safety has greatly improved in the past several years, largely thanks to advancements in aircraft engine technology. Engines on today's commercial jets are more reliable, safe, and efficient ...

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