Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Health Monitoring System by Real Flight Data

Table 1

Gas turbine engine failures and causes [28].

Engine separation

Severe damage

Surge

Bird ingestion/FOD

Seizure

Flameout

Fuel control problems

Fire

Tailpipe fires

Hot start

Icing

Reverser inadvertent deploy

Fuel leak

High EGT

X

X

O

O

X

O

X

O

X: symptom very likely; O: symptom possible. Blank fields mean that the symptom is unlikely.