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Old 1st December 2018, 05:35 AM
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Default Frontier Engine Cowling Damage

Frontier Airlines flight #F9260 from Vegas to Tampa suffered serious engine cowling damage this morning. The Airbus A320 (N227FR) safely returned to Las Vegas shortly after takeoff.

Story here from The Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.89768d962d81
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Old 1st December 2018, 11:56 AM
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This seems to be happening more that usual.

Is it faster turnaround times, inexp. ground crew, flight crew not checking ....
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Old 1st December 2018, 03:20 PM
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According to another forum and also FlightAware N227FR overnighted at McCurran International Airport and this was it’s first flight of the day.
Flight crew not checking?
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