Qantas finds new ‘issues’ with 3 A380 engines
Australia’s national carrier grounded its six double-decker A380s, the world’s newest and largest airliner, after an engine burst minutes into a flight from Singapore to Sydney last week, scattering debris over Indonesia’s Batam island. The plane made a safe emergency landing in Singapore. Engineers conducted eight hours of extensive checks on each engine over the weekend. “On three of the engines what we found are slight anomalies, oil where oil shouldn’t be,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “We’re trying to check what the cause…
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Qantas finds new ‘issues’ with 3 A380 engines
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