Jan 25, 2007
Incident
Minor Cripple Creek, CO
InjuriesNone
Phase of Flight-
ConditionsVMC
OperationFAR 121
Probable Cause
A fatigue fracture, which resulted in the separation of the No.1 engine fan disk. Contributing factors in the accident were the operators' maintenance personnel lack of training to be able to detect arc-out damage on the fan disk, and the fan disk manufacturer's inadequate electro-chemical etch match marking process of the fan disk to forward fan shaft that allowed for the initiation of a fatigue point that was undetected at the time of original manufacture.
NTSB DEN07IA055