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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told media he believes a material failure or design defect was responsible for Thursday’s uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on Airbus A380 VH-OQA operated QF32 shortly after takeoff from Singapore. “This issue does not relate to maintenance, this is an engine issue,” Joyce told media on Friday

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said at a media conference that the airline’s fleet of Airbus A380s could be back flying within a few days, while passengers on the ill-fated QF32 service have now departed Singapore. Joyce told reporters that it had agreed with Rolls-Royce and Airbus on a series of checks on the Trent

Qantas management and the union which represents its maintenance engineers, the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) have become involved in a very acrimonious public debate over outsourcing maintenance in the wake of the QF32 engine failure incident yesterday. In a statement released yesterday evening, ALAEA federal secretary Steve Purvinas alledged safety was a growing

Singapore Airlines, which operates about 10 Trent 900 powered Airbus A380s, has also suspended flying operations with the type until it completes inspections on the aircraft following the Qantas inflight engine failure yesterday. “Our engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and aircraft manufacturer Airbus have advised us to conduct precautionary technical checks on our A380 aircraft, following today’s

Qantas’s six-strong A380 fleet remained grounded overnight as the airline dispatched some of its aircraft and chartered in others to cover the capacity shortfall brought about by the grounding. The airline says passengers from the A380 which was forced to return to Singapore on Thursday afternoon following an inflight uncontained failure of its second Rolls-Royce

Qantas A380 VH-OQA has suffered an evident uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff from Singapore for Sydney, forcing the crew to dump fuel and make an emergency landing back at Singapore, and leading the airline to suspend all A380 flying while investigatons into the incident take place. The aircraft’s number two Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine