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Qantas Flight 32 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore.On 4 November 2010, the aircraft operating the route, an Airbus A380, suffered an uncontained failure in one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines.
Airbus SAS and Rolls-Royce Group launched an investigation into why an engine on a Qantas Airways (QUBSF) A380 exploded while the plane was in the air, forcing an emergency landing in Singapore.
According to The New York Times, there have been at least two cases over the last year in which A380s with Trent 900 engines were forced to land after engine failures. On Friday, Qantas passengers ...
A flawed part or design failing may have caused the engine on board a Qantas Airways (QUBSF) Airbus A380 to explode in mid-air, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said. The explosion on a Thursday flight from ...
Qantas Flight 30, on 25 July 2008, a Boeing 747-438 operated by Qantas, construction number 25067, registration VH-OJK, was a scheduled flight from London Heathrow to Melbourne with a stopover in Hong Kong. The flight was interrupted on the Hong Kong leg by an exploding oxygen tank that ruptured the fuselage just forward of the starboard wing root.
Qantas flight QF520 had to make an emergency landing in Sydney after a suspected engine failure. The plane was a Boeing 737-800, per the flight tracking websites Flightradar24 and FlightAware.
Richard Champion de Crespigny AM (/ ˈ k r ɛ p. n iː / KREP-nee) (born 31 May 1957) is an Australian Qantas pilot and author who served as pilot-in-command of Qantas Flight 32 and was widely praised for his cockpit resource management during the emergency with his crew (first officer Matt Hicks, second officer Mark Johnson, check captain Harry Wubben, and check captain David Evans).
Engineers found oil leaks in three engines in Qantas Airways' (QUBSF) grounded fleet of Airbus A380s, CEO Alan Joyce said. Engineers found the leaks as they performed safety tests after last week ...