JAL retires Boeing 777 planes with P&W engines
Japan Airlines said it has retired its fleet of 13 Boeing 777s with Pratt & Whitney engines. The planes are grounded for good, and comes a year earlier than originally planned.
It planned to retire the aircraft next year but chose to do it now following the recent United Airlines engine explosion. The United incident saw a Pratt & Whitney engine failure mid-flight which led to much of the engine breaking up and falling to the ground.
The JAL planes are the same aircraft and engine type and one of them suffered a similar problem of engine failure a few weeks before the United incident.
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