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U.S. regulator issues International Aero Engines with Airworthiness Directive for some V2500 series engines
May 25th 2021
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) covering selected International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500s. Read More » Several of the engines being tested power some A320 family aircraft. The emergency AD requires operators to conduct an ultrasonic inspection (USI) of the affected high-pressure turbine (HPT) 1st-stage disks and HPT 2nd-stage disks within 10 flight cycles and replace any that did not pass the inspection. It listed 15 engine serial numbers. "This AD was prompted by a review of investigative findings from an event involving an uncontained failure of an HPT 1st-stage disk that resulted in high-energy debris penetrating the engine cowling," the emergency AD said. "The FAA is issuing this AD to prevent failure of the HPT."
