Yesterday, 4 November, an Airbus A380 belonging to Australian company Qantas, made an emergency landing at the airport of Singapore. The reason is that one of the plane’s engines failure. After the plane took off the engine just shut down.
It was reported first that the plane had crashed but later the information confirmed that the aircraft returned to Singapore as a precaution.
None of 459 passengers were injured.
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thanks for the great video
Qantas IS the safest airline according to passenger per air mile data, nobody put that in doubt. But it looks like they are operating 6 ticking time bombs in their fleet today. Th big deal is that this particular engine failure is a MAJOR failure, where pieces of the turbine managed to fling out of the engine nacelle, puncturing the wing. The wing is where 90% of the usuable fuel of a modern airliner is stored. As of right now, with the Rolls-Royce powerplant, this aircraft is no longer a guarantee of safety.