Applicability: CFM International CFM56-2
series, -3 series, -5 series, and -7B series engines with fuel
filters, Western Filter part numbers (P/Ns) WF337661 and WF337017
and PTI Technologies P/Ns 7595983-101 and 7588133, installed.
Engine trouble forced the pilots of a Northwest Airlines DC-9 to
abort takeoff from Milwaukee's George Mitchell International
Airport Sunday morning, but not in time to keep the plane from
skidding off a runway in snowy weather.
An autopsy was planned for Sunday for the Continental Airlines
captain who collapsed at the controls of his Boeing 757 and died on
a flight from Houston, TX, to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico,
Saturday.