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Lessons Learned - continued

Black and white photograph of National Airlines, Flight 27, DC-10 showing Engine number 3 fan blade disintegration.

The following lessons should be learned from this event:

  1. Fan blades and fan case can have harmful vibratory modes.
  2. Previous test cell failures were precursor events for the accident.
  3. Precursor events must be resolved or risk being repeated.

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