{"id":759,"date":"2012-12-22T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2012-12-22T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:48:19","slug":"faa-mandates-ge-repair-fault-in-some-cf-34-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/faa-mandates-ge-repair-fault-in-some-cf-34-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA mandates GE repair fault in some CF34 Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-760\" alt=\"ge_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ge_logo.png\" width=\"190\" height=\"67\" \/>The FAA has ordered General Electric to repair 300 CF34-8C and CF34-8E\u00a0turbofan engines because of bad valves which have caused two engine fires. The engines power Bombardier CRJ700s and 900s as well as Embraer 170\/175 aircraft. This will effect 15 percent of the fleet, encompassing engines built between 2001 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The issue to be repaired is caused by a fault in the operability bleed valve, which takes air out of the engine&#8217;s compressor during start-up. As the valve fittings age they occasionally leak, and twice have caused an engine fire.\u00a0One incident occurred on takeoff, but the engine was shut down and the fire-extinguishing system activated before the aircraft landed safely. The other fire occurred after landing when a fire alert sounded, the engine was shut down, and the aircraft taxied to the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA has ordered General Electric to repair 300 CF34-8C and CF34-8E\u00a0turbofan engines because of bad valves which have caused two engine fires. The engines power Bombardier CRJ700s and 900s as well as Embraer 170\/175 aircraft. This will effect 15 percent of the fleet, encompassing engines built between 2001 and 2006. The issue to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/faa-mandates-ge-repair-fault-in-some-cf-34-engines\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[184,183,182,15,237],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents","category-news","tag-cf34-engines","tag-faa","tag-general-electric","tag-incident","tag-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjet.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}