{"id":1288,"date":"2025-06-19T03:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T13:32:51","slug":"ntsb-issues-urgent-safety-warning-over-certain-boeing-airbus-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/ntsb-issues-urgent-safety-warning-over-certain-boeing-airbus-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"NTSB issues urgent safety warning over certain Boeing, Airbus engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued an urgent warning<\/a> Wednesday about the potential for certain jet engines, when damaged, to allow smoke to enter the cockpit or cabin.<\/p>\n

The NTSB safety bulletin warned about CFM International LEAP-1B engines\u00a0but encouraged evaluation for LEAP-1A and -1C engines. These engines are used on Boeing 737 Max narrow-body passenger jets and on certain Airbus A320neo aircraft, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

The NTSB recommendations follow two incidents on Southwest Airlines flights in which birds flew into the engine and caused smoke or vapor fog.<\/p>\n

In March 2023, birds flew into the right engine of a flight departing Havana, Cuba, and caused vapor fog to fill the passenger cabin. In December 2023, a bird flew into the left engine of a flight departing New Orleans and filled the flight deck with what the crew described as \u201cacrid white smoke\u201d so thick that it was difficult to see the instrument panel.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries reported on either flight, but the NTSB issued the safety warning because of concerns \u201cthat flight crews operating these airplanes may not be fully aware of the potential hazard of\u201d a \u201csmoke-related event along with the appropriate mitigation actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FAA agrees with the NTSB recommendations,\u201d the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement, noting Boeing \u201calerted affected operators\u201d in 2024 to the potential engine issue.<\/p>\n

The FAA also alerted operators earlier this year \u201cto reinforce the importance of several factors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese include evaluating their procedures and crew training to ensure they address this potential issue, and evaluating whether training simulators are producing the correct response to an engine failure that would trigger the Load Reduction Device,\u201d it added in a statement.<\/p>\n

The FAA said that once the engine manufacturer \u201cdevelops a permanent mitigation,\u201d the FAA will require operators to implement the change \u201cwithin an appropriate timeframe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aligned with the NTSB\u2019s recommendations and the work is already underway, in close partnership with our airframers, to enhance the capability of this important system,\u201d GE Aerospace said in an emailed statement to CNN.<\/p>\n

\u201cCFM International and Boeing have been working on a software design update. We support the NTSB\u2019s recommendation,\u201d Boeing said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued an urgent warning Wednesday about the potential for certain jet engines, when damaged, to allow smoke to enter the cockpit or cabin. The NTSB safety bulletin warned about CFM International LEAP-1B engines\u00a0but encouraged evaluation for LEAP-1A and -1C engines. These engines are used on Boeing 737 Max narrow-body passenger jets and on certain Airbus A320neo aircraft, according to a press release. The NTSB…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}