Mexican airline hot corrosion engine failure

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WM_Su2014_01 · Corrosion Cracking and More, Summer 2014 · §6.p2

[Tom shows turbine blades.] To show you some hot corrosion: these are some turbine blades. They came off a functioning Mexicali airline jet maintained by United Airlines. This is one that didn't corrode; this is one that did corrode, it was still in the — and if you look at it carefully, see, this one sort of warped, not quite straight anymore. This is sulfidation. We'll talk about that a little bit later.