QF32 Titanic In the Sky | Disaster Explained

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Qantas Flight 32 was a Qantas scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore. On 4 November 2010, the aircraft serving the flight, an Airbus A380, suffered an uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff from Singapore Changi Airport and returned to Singapore to make an emergency landing. The failure was the first of its kind for the A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft. On inspection it was found that a turbine disc in the aircraft's No. 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine (on the port side nearest the fuselage) had disintegrated. In addition to destruction of the engine, this caused damage to the nacelle, wing, fuel system, landing gear, flight controls, and the controls for engine No. 1, and a fire in the left inner wing fuel tank that self-extinguished.[1] The failure was determined to have been caused by the breaking of a stub oil pipe which had been manufactured improperly.

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The aircraft was registered in Australia as VH-OQA, and named Nancy-Bird Walton, Qantas' first A380. The failure occurred over Batam Island, Indonesia, four minutes after taking off from Changi for the second leg of the flight. After holding to determine aircraft status, the aircraft returned to Changi nearly two hours after take-off. There were no injuries to the passengers, crew or people on the ground; debris from the accident fell onto Batam.[2]

At the time of the accident, 39 A380s were operating with five airlines — Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Qantas. The accident led to the temporary grounding of the rest of the six-plane Qantas A380 fleet.[3] It also led to groundings, inspections and engine replacements on some other Rolls-Royce powered A380s in service with Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, but not in the A380 fleets of Air France or Emirates, which were powered by Engine Alliance engines.