Qantas jumbo makes emergency landing in Singapore

Yahoo! news/AP ^ | 11-4-10 | By JULIA ZAPPEI, Associated Press

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Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine Thursday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.

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AP story, see link.

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[Dan Nunn]

If it ain’t Boeing, yadda yadda...

I fly Southwest anyway so it’s not an issue for me.

[Doogle]

"...pucker factor 99.5%"

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There was a previous link here on FR, but it was a headline only...This one has much more detail.

[sionnsar]

Grounding a bunch of A380s will lead to a lot of less-than-satisfied customers..

[JRandomFreeper]

That had to be pretty exciting. In a "I need new pants" kind of way. The amazing thing is that the AC survived and landed with all souls.

/johnny

[Sloth]

Rain Man will be so disappointed.

[central_va]

Socialist built aircraft.

[Constitution Day]

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“Bring me my brown pants!”

[ijrazz]

Airbus will blame Rolls-Royce, the engine manufacturer for this.

[Padams]

Has Qantas ever had crash? I don’t think it has.

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I have some friends who work at RR...this could get interesting...

[C210N]

In another seat, Tyler Wooster watched as part of the skin of the wing peeled off, exposing foam and broken wires...

But "it's not like the aircraft is going to drop out of the sky,"

Yeah, right. Unless under the broken wing skin were wires controlling the ailerons, in which case it could have been another Iowa UA Flight 232 cornfield crash.

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The closest they have come is the incident a few years back over the Philippines when an Oxygen canister exploded in a 747-400 and blew a 5 ft hole in the lower fuselage.

They still have never had a crash. :)

[wolf78]

If it ain’t Boeing, yadda yadda...

You do realize that the engine has very little to do with who makes the rest of the aircraft? The A380 either uses RR Trent 900 engines or GE/PW engine alliance GP7000 engines. The Trent family of engines can be found on Boeing aircrafts like the original 777 (Trent 800) or the new 787 (Trent 1000), whereas the GP7000 is a close relative of the GE90, which can be found on the 777.

I fly Southwest anyway so it’s not an issue for me.

So it's French-American CFM56 (GE/Snecma) engines for you. Which are also used by Airbus on the A320 series (in addition to PW/RR IAE V2500 engines).

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After Sioux City, plane mfrs began putting their redundant systems in different locations. This way a repeat of the engine shrapnel taking out all 3 hydraulic lines to the rudder simultaneously would be far less likely.

This plane load of people could p[ossibly have been saved because of new design procedures developed as a result of that crash and its ensuing investigation.

[A.A. Cunningham]

From last night:

Singapore-bound Qantas flight near Indonesia's Batam Island: [No crash]

Qantas plane in mid-air scare

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ahhh...that explains why only the first of your links came up in my search. IT was still in the rumor phase at that time. The second link did not include the keyword “A380.”

I searched by both title and that keyword before posting.