Second Qantas aircraft makes emergency landing
SINGAPORE/SYDNEY – A Qantas Airways Ltd jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Friday, less than 48 hours after another of the Australian carrier’s planes had to land prematurely due to engine failure. The Sydney-bound Boeing 747-400 aircraft, with 412 people on board, returned to the airport 20 minutes after takeoff in a move that an unidentified official from Qantas told Channel NewsAsia was ‘a precautionary matter.’ That came a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 jet was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its four Rolls-Royce Plc engines appeared to break apart in flight, scattering debris over an Indonesian island. ‘It was a very big shock to us, especially…
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