One passenger fractured a vertebra during the evacuation, according to the report.A detailed teardown of the right engine revealed that its number two bearing had failed, causing the oil smoke to enter the cabin through the
bleed air system for pressurization.
The integrated controller will monitor and control the fire protection and overheat (
bleed air leak detection) subsystems, as well as provide auxiliary aircraft functions, the company said.
Bleed air is analyzed in the device and compared with a database built on measurements taken from the engine test rig.
I completed the cockpit-hot checklist to the step to secure the
bleed air and eliminate the source of hot air.
Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA) (NYSE:ERJ) (Bovespa:EMBR3) has awarded a contract for a pneumatic
bleed air system to Meggitt Fluid Controls, part of the UK-based Meggitt plc (LSE:MGGT).
The 7E7 does not use
bleed air, that is the extraction of hot air from the engine to power systems, and it will use electronically based wing ice protection, based on the technologies that Ultra and GKN developed for helicopters, Boeing said.
A full-cooling failure would have allowed unregulated 12th-stage
bleed air into the cockpit.
Everything was going well until Betty broke the silence with, "
Bleed air left.
The
bleed air comes out of the engine at a temperature much higher than the flash point of JP-5, which had been dripping on the inside of the engine bay from the disconnected fuel-drain line.