THE HAWK T2 fast-jet training aircraft has been grounded as a precaution after one aircraft suffered an engine failure on the runway at RAF Valley in Anglesey, North Wales, the RAF announced on January 25. It is understood that the fault involved the failure of a blade on its Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 951 non-afterburning turbofan engine that was subsequently ingested by the powerplant. It is not known when flight training operations on the Hawk T2 are resuming at the Anglesey base.
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