Investigators have found that a ruptured fuel manifold hose on the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97 engine of a Cathay Pacific Airbus ...
A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350 U-turned on Monday ... Rolls Royce's Trent XWB-97 is the sole engine choice for the A350-1000, the largest version of the widebody jet that can carry up to 480 passengers.
The A350-1000, the larger of two models in the Airbus A350 family, and its Rolls-Royce XWB-97 engines have been under the spotlight since a Zurich-bound jet was forced to return to Hong Kong after ...
While the initial emergency directive applied only to the Airbus A350-1000 engine, the latest AD was extended to all Airbus ...
the larger of two models of twin-engined A350. These are powered by the XWB-97, Rolls' largest civil jet engine. Cathay operates 18 of the largest twin-engined Airbus planes as part of a mixed ...
In total, Cathay operates 48 A350 jets including the smaller and more widely used A350-900, which runs on a different member of the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine family called the XWB-84.
Europe's aviation safety agency said Thursday it will require inspection of part of the fleet of Airbus A350 wide-body jets ...
Sept 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways (0293.HK), opens new tab said on Tuesday it had inspected its entire Airbus ... the XWB-97 engine, the Rolls-Royce model used on the A350-1000.
On Friday, following the incident, EASA said extending its compulsory engine inspections to include the XWB-84 engines found on the Malaysia Airlines Airbus A350-900 is "not warranted at this stage".