As you might be aware, the Airbus A380 involved in today's incident had an Engine Alliance GP7270 made by the EA joint venture of GE Aviation and Pratt & Whitney. Initial indications suggest a failure in the fan section, which is Pratt parts (the turbine core is a scaled version of the GE 90). This will probably cause some jitters in the market tomorrow, but for now does NOT appear to be a GE issue (or even necessarily a Pratt issue).
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EA is a 50/50 joint venture and though the parts in question were designed and produced by P&W, the problem does impact GE by nature of the JV.
Thanks for this update - I was not aware.
My first reaction to seeing that news was to failure mode. Thanks for the update.