A second motor malfunction in as many months on the Airbus A380 has Rolls Royce on the defensive. Probably the most recent event occurred Thursday. A Quantas Flight en route to Australia from Singapore experienced a catastrophic engine malfunction. On a flight from Paris to Singapore in September, the Rolls Royce motor on a Singapore Airlines A380 failed. Stock for both EADS, which owns Airbus, and Rolls Royce dropped significantly.
A380 engine malfunction down pours parts on elementary institution
Quantas, Australia’s national airline, grounded its entire fleet of six Airbus A380s after a Rolls Royce motor on one of the massive airliners exploded six minutes after it departed Singapore’s Changi Airport. Motor pieces flew and hit the A380's wing. It had been even ripped off. Some pieces fell down. The Indonesian island of Batam got some of the pieces too. Chunks of the motor fell on the roof of an elementary school. Everyone heard an explosion and ran out to view the airplane circling, somebody from the school told the Australian. Metal begun to fall from the sky. It went onto the institution then. Within the cabin of the plane, passengers heard an explosion, a bang and then felt rattling. The plane headed back to Changi airport and made an emergency landing.
Nicknamed Superjumbo with the Airbus A380
In Sept a Rolls Royce engine on an Airbus A380 flown by Singapore Airlines failed 2 and a half hours into a flight from Paris to Singapore. The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger jet in the world. You will find four engines in this double deck and wide body jet. The nickname "Superjumbo" had been given to it. The A380 seats 525 passengers in a three-class configuration or as much as 853 individuals in all-coach configuration. It can fly nonstop from New York to Hong Kong cruising at 560 mph. The A380 is designed to fly on three engines. As a safety precaution, the pilots from Singapore turned around. This was because the flight was so long.
A380 goes down and so does stock
Despite the Sept engine failure, the 11 A380s that Singapore Airlines had still kept going. However, after Quantas grounded its fleet of A380s Thurs, Singapore Airlines followed suit. Rolls Royce and Airbus advised the airline to perform precautionary technical checks on the engines. Rolls Royce stock fell as far as 5.5 percent. Stock in Airbus parent European Aeronautic, Defense & Space Co., dropped as far as 4.3 percent.
Details from
The Australian
theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/qantas-grounds-a380s-after-engine-blast/story-fn59niix-1225948047085
Bloomberg
bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aJzG6NMdJ_.c
CNN
cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/indonesia.plane.emergency/index.html?npt=NP1
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