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  • Qantas A380 Engine Failure

    A commercial airliner bound for Singapore has reportedly crashed in western Indonesia.

    There are fears it may have been a Qantas jet.

    Reuters is quoting Indonesian TV as saying the plane is a Qantas Airbus 380.

    A police chief has told Indonesia's TVOne that debris from a plane has been found scattered near a shopping mall on Batam island.

    A Qantas plane carrying 459 people has made an emergency landing at Singapore airport after initial reports it had crashed.

  • #2
    Can I get a title change please since I can't edit it myself?

    Looks like it was an engine failure on a Qantas A380 which has landed safely. The media jumped the gun, as usual.

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    JAKARTA, Indonesia—Police and witnesses say they heard an explosion as a commercial airliner was flying over western Indonesia and found debris scattered near a shopping mall.

    Media reports, meanwhile, said that a Qantas Airbus 383 made an emergency landing in Singapore soon after dumping fuel.

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    • #3
      Always helps to check a couple of sources before jumping the gun. Looks like there is a worldwide agency and a national paper with their foot planted squarely in their respective mouths.

      On the story though, thankfully this was not a crash, and that the plane landed safely. Now then, the real question is why did the incident occur, and is this a potential problem going forward?

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      • #4
        It started with a breaking news headline on Reuters.com.

        One would think that Reuters would not fall for Twitter rumors.

        They took it down about 5 minutes later.

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        • #5
          Media Getting Worse

          So there was no crash?
          Seems like the media has no one to hold them accountable for false reports.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Kaos View Post
            So there was no crash?
            Seems like the media has no one to hold them accountable for false reports.
            No one @ all, especially the wire services.

            Sounds like the flight had an uncontained engine failure on the #2 engine.

            Some reports say it landed, others say it is still in the air dumping fuel.

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            • #7
              It has landed at SIN. It is a QANTAS A380. It looks like to be a very serious engine failure though as the description from the airport is that "an engine is missing", and debris has fallen on ground over Indonesia where the failure began not too long after the aircraft took off from SIN.

              It would be very bad for Airbus and for such a new model as the A380 if the aircraft did not make it.

              Reported from ChannelNewsAsia below (a Singaporean news channel run by the government so I trust it's authentic for news from Singapore).
              (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...091283/1/.html)

              SINGAPORE - A Qantas A380 superjumbo made a dramatic emergency landing in Singapore Thursday after experiencing engine trouble over Indonesia, in the first mid-air emergency involving the giant Airbus plane.

              The double-decker plane, which had taken off from Singapore bound for Sydney carrying 433 passengers, dumped fuel over Indonesia before returning to the city-state's Changi Airport trailing smoke.

              Six fire engines swarmed the A380 on landing, spraying liquid on it, according to an AFP reporter.

              One of the engines on the left wing looked to be missing, and the area around it was black, the reporter said.

              Plane debris including what appeared to be part of the tail of a Qantas jet was found in the Indonesian town of Batam, after a mid-air explosion was heard on the ground.

              "I didn't see a plane crash but I heard a loud explosion in the air. There were metal shards coming down from the sky into an industrial area in Batam," witness Noor Kanwa told AFP.

              A spokesman for Australia's Qantas Airways sid the plane was carrying 433 passengers and 26 crew and there were no immediate reports of injuries.

              Qantas, which has never suffered a fatal crash in its 90-year history, said earlier there had "definitely" not been a crash involving one of its planes over Indonesia.

              "We're just waiting on a report," a spokeswoman told AFP. "At this stage there's definitely been no crash."

              The A380's very first commercial flight operated by Singapore Airlines was on the same Singapore-Sydney route in October 2007.

              Since then, fuel and computer glitches have grounded several A380s and at least one Air France flight was forced to turn around and land in New York after problems with its navigation system in November 2009.
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              • #8
                I wonder how close we were to having 450 lives snuffed out. Very disconcerting. Thank goodness everyone seems to have come out of this ok.

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                • #9


                  Source: Sidney Morning Herald

                  Damaged the wing as well.

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                  • #10
                    I have said for a long time that when the news reports "tweets", or anything from 'social media', or says anything like "give me a sense of..." that they have strayed from reporting real news, and have stepped into the realm of opinion and speculation. Such is the state of the 24/7 news cycle today. We cannot really trust anything anymore now...can we.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by B757300 View Post


                      Source: Sidney Morning Herald

                      Damaged the wing as well.
                      Ouch! Definitely "uncontained."
                      Trump is an idiot!
                      Vote Democrats!!

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                      • #12
                        Alan Joyce is in damage control. A member of the Australian press asked him when the A380 was last serviced, he completely dodged the question.
                        AirDisaster.com Forum Member 2004-2008

                        Originally posted by orangehuggy
                        the most dangerous part of a flight is not the take off or landing anymore, its when a flight crew member goes to the toilet

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                        • #13
                          Qantas grounds the whole A380 fleet until they have more information about the engine failure:

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                          • #14
                            Rolls Royce has some explaining to do.

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                            • #15
                              From http://a380production.com/
                              The aircraft in question was the airlines first A380 (VH-OQA – MSN014), which recently had a C-check performed in Frankfurt.

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