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Farnborough 2010: Eurocopter diagnoses Australian MRH90 engine failure

19th July 2010 - 06:55 GMT | by Tony Skinner in Farnborough

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Eurocopter is confident it has identified the issue that caused a ‘catastrophic’ engine failure to an Australian Defence Force (ADF) MRH90 multirole helicopter in April.

Speaking at an EADS pre-Farnborough Airshow briefing in London on 17 July, Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling revealed that in addition to the engine failure that resulted in the grounding of the MRH90 fleet, three other engines on the production run had experienced related problems on aircraft outside Australia.

An investigation was launched after the 20 April incident, which saw the helicopter lose one of its two Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322-01/9 engines about 30 minutes north-east of

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