The Engine Alliance (EA) is an American

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manufacturer based in

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. The company is a 50/50 joint venture between GE Aerospace and

Pratt & Whitney Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially ...

, a subsidiary of RTX. Engine Alliance was established in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range

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The main application for such an engine, the GP7100, was originally for the

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-500/600X projects, before these were cancelled due to lack of demand from

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. Instead, the GP7000 has been re-optimized for use on the

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superjumbo. In that market it competed with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900, the launch engine for the aircraft. The two EA variants are the GP7270 and the GP7277. On September 30, 2017, an Engine Alliance GP7270 engine suffered from an uncontained failure during the passenger flight of Air France Flight 66.Engine Explodes on an Air France Plane, Forcing an Emergency Landing. New York Times, September 30, 2017.
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