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Rolls Royce Trent Engine Defection Causes Singapore Airlines Airbus toReturn to Origin

What: Singapore Airlines Airbus A380-800 en route from Singapore to Frankfurt
Where: Singapore
When: Mar 27th 2012
Who: 430 passengers
Why: While en route, the Airbus’s number three engine surged. Pilots shut down the engine and returned to Singapore.

The engine involved was one of four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. A “surge” refers to “a disruption of airflow that affects an engine’s normal operation.”

A Nov 2010 engine explosion that forced an emergency landing in Singapore initiated a grounding of Qantas entire A380 fleet in order to determine the safety of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines.

Passengers were provided an alternative flight to Germany.

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