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More woes for Rolls Royce?: Now a Qantas B747-400 in engine scare

BBC news has the story:

A Qantas airline jumbo jet has been forced to return to Singapore because of an engine problem. The Boeing 747-400 turned back shortly after take-off from Changi Airport, airline officials said. It comes a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after one of its engines exploded. Qantas grounded its six-strong fleet of A380s and an investigation is under way into what caused the failure.

The latest incident affected Sydney-bound flight QF6, which managed to land safely. “Shortly after take-off the captain experienced an issue with one of its engines,” a Qantas spokeswoman said.

Qantas Boeing 747-400’s are usually equipped with 4 Rolls-Royce RB211-524G-T engines of the type which suffered an in-flight failure in August this year.

 

A Qantas jet was forced to turn back to San Francisco after a hole was blown in the shell of the engine.

Flight QF74 failure of RB211-524 engine in August 2010: Photo: Channel Ten

 

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2 Responses to “More woes for Rolls Royce?: Now a Qantas B747-400 in engine scare”

  1. Unknown's avatar Is it Rolls Royce or is it the RR / Qantas combination? « The k2p blog Says:
    November 6, 2010 at 11:15 am

    […] November 5th, QF6, Boeing 747-400, RR RB 211-524 engines, returned to Changi, Singapore after one en… […]

  2. Unknown's avatar Qantas A380 fleet to stay grounded for 3 more days as more engine issues are discovered « The k2p blog Says:
    November 7, 2010 at 11:29 pm

    […] are in addition to the Trent 900 which exploded on the A 380 which returned to Singapore and the RB 211-524 on the Boeing 747-400 which also returned to Singapore when an engine […]

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