Qantas A380 engine blows in mid-air!

Thought you Aviation enthusiast like me want to know about this.

1- Source: BBC News:
http://www.bbc.co.uk …rld-asia-pacific-11691197

It appears SIA (Singapore Airlines) and Qantas (QF) have grounded their A380's, Rolls Royce and Airbus have suggested this.
2- Source: Jetphotos.Net forums:
http://forums.jetphoto​s.net/showthread.php?t​=51658

Some discussions, links and pictures here.
Some also say that a volcano was erupting at the time, but this is still not confirmed.

I am glad everything is OK though... There is so much complexity in those aircraft engines it is incredible the safety record they have. I worked for a company producing the airfoils for inside commercial jet engines and the process is intense to produce them. Endless audits, checks and dimensional inspections. Then once it left our company, the customer did further checks and audits and continued the manufacturing process. It also included special "grown" single crystal grain structure alloys as well, in which inside these engines reach near-melting point temperatures (for efficiency) but were designed to cool enough that this did not happen!

Engine failures are and everday occurance, this one is really being beaten up by the Australian newspapers.....they(th​e newspapers) love Qantas bashing down here!

This isn't a everyday engine failure it's more. But they are overreacting indeed.

macca172 wrote in post #11226483
Engine failures are and everday occurance, this one is really being beaten up by the Australian newspapers.....they(th​e newspapers) love Qantas bashing down here!

+1

It's got 4 engines, and one of them failed. Plane could still fly normally with 3 engines.

Khaled wrote in post #11226561
+1

It's got 4 engines, and one of them failed. Plane could still fly normally with 3 engines.

States the truth.

Khaled wrote in post #11226561
+1

It's got 4 engines, and one of them failed. Plane could still fly normally with 3 engines.

SnowManZ wrote in post #11226631
States the truth.

Yes true but have you seen the picture? There is some part in the wing, and you can see that a explosion occured on the engine.

I have spent over forty years in the aviation business, all this is a massive turbine failure. Ive seen it before and I will see it again. The hole in the wing was more than likely caused by a turbine blade parting company with the engine and heading north!

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They love to bash Qantas here. Because of there impeccable safety record and then all of a sudden over the past 7months-1 year, engine failures and malfunctions (5 of them) they are just bashing them to death! I mean really, i fly with QANTAS for the PILOTS not for there planes.
As they said on the news, this pilot did exactly what he was instructed and trained to do and did it with precision and no panic.
I'm pretty sure that even with 2 engines only working you can still fly, though emergency landing is needed asap because its not enough power with the A380.
They said that he had to dump fuel, probably to level the plane out.

I think this whole story is just blown out of proportion. This could of happened to any plane. Its brand new and i dare say, it isn't qantas's fault but more rolls royce.

These things happen, the plane can fly with two engines out of action and the wing damage was not particularly significant. Of course, if hot engine parts had ruptured the fuel tank in the wing it might have been a different matter.

Until it is known what caused the engine to blow, it is hard to say if there is likely to be an issue with other engines of this type. This sort of damage can easily be caused by a birdstrike, in which case it is situation normal and nothing could have been done differently to prevent it.

Interesting, but it needs to be in "Talk".

PhotosGuy wrote in post #11226975
Interesting, but it needs to be in "Talk".

Realised this too, sorry

Uncontained engine failures are srs business. And this isnt the first issue with the Trents.

So they are saying an oil leak did this?

sigma pi wrote in post #11247153
So they are saying an oil leak did this?

Apparently, initial inspections are finding oil in places where oil shouldn't be found...