Pratt Plans F-35 Jet Engine Fix by End-October

Pratt & Whitney and the Pentagon are expected to select a planned fix to the F-35 fighter jet's engine by the end of October, a senior company executive said Thursday.

Engineers have identified two potential remedies to prevent a repeat of the fire that broke out on a test jet in June, which temporarily grounded the fleet and still threatens to derail plans to have the plane combat ready for the U.S. Marine Corps next July.

Investigators have narrowed the cause of the incident to excessive rubbing between engine parts during a two-second flying maneuver on a test flight two weeks before the incident at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

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