It’s looking more and more like the explosion of a Roll-Royce engine on a Qantas-owned Airbus A380 last week wasn’t an anomaly, but a sign of an as-yet unidentified design flaw. So how deep are the problems at Rolls-Royce, and …
Rolls-Royce shares dropped further on Monday as investors fretted about the impact of problems with Rolls-Royce engines on Airbus A380s.
Last week, a Rolls-Royce engine exploded during a Qantas Airways (QUBSF) flight from Singapore to Sydney, forcing an emergency landing in Singapore. Today, Qantas said it found oil leaks in the engines of some of its grounded A380s.
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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’s incident where an engine on an A380 exploded in mid air during a Singapore-Sydney flight, forcing the plane to perform an emergency landing.
The three engines with leaks were on three…
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Qantas Finds Three of Its A380s Have Leaking Engines originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:28:00.
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Qantas has a lot riding on its reputation for safety, which only raises the stakes for the airline after the engine explosion on one of its Airbus A380s Thursday. It temporarily grounded its six A380s, but the airline needs a l…
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 Singapore to Sydney, Australia scattered debris across…