Airbus’s flagship A380 superjumbo is facing the most intense scrutiny in its brief history after Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines suspended flights of the aircraft hours after an engine on a Qantas jet seemed to break apart shortly after take-off from Singapore.
The Sydney-bound jet made an emergency landing back in Singapore after some of the 433 passengers aboard said they heard a loud explosion. Debris was found on the Indonesian island of Batam shortly after.
Alan Joyce, Qantas chief executive, said it appeared that the A380’s Rolls-Royce engine had suffered a so-called “uncontained” failure, meaning parts of it had escaped its casing.
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