Concern in the aeronautical giant Rolls-Royce: the British manufacturer of aircraft engines announced Tuesday that it had discovered "signs of wear" on "a small number" of engines which equip some Airbus A350s. He announced that he wanted to inspect similar engines "as a precaution".
"During routine inspections", the engine manufacturer said in a press release to have "identified signs of wear in the intermediate compressor of a small number of engines in service for four or five years and which are approaching their first overhaul", or a little more than 100 devices.
The manufacturer specifies that the engines concerned have not recorded any particular problems in flight but that it is inspecting “all other Trent XWB-84 engines with a similar lifespan as a precaution”.
The manufacturer wants to be reassuring
The Trent XWB-84 is the engine that exclusively powers the A350 XWB wide-body aircraft. "The engines which will now be overhauled have traveled the equivalent of 350 times around the world, with no occurrence of unplanned maintenance" due to an incident, assures Chris Cholerton, president of the civil aerospace branch of Rolls- Royce.
The group wants to be all the more reassuring that it has spent billions of dollars to solve a series of problems on the Trent 1000 engine used on the Dreamliner 787.
However, this is a new blow for the engine manufacturer: already hit hard by a major civil aviation crisis in the wake of the coronavirus, Rolls-Royce has notably announced 9,000 job cuts.
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