rolls royce engines | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:15:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Qantas Says Engines Need Replacement https://airflightdisaster.com/qantas-says-engines-need-replacement/ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:01:59 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=12642 Rolls-Royce claims the Trent 900 problem is confined to a specific part in the turbine area. 21 of 38 A380s operated by Singapore Air, Qantas and Lufthansa use Rolls-Royce Trent 900 series engines. Singapore Air may have to replace 24 engines. Qantas is inspecting 14 engines which may shared among six planes—which may explain some...

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]]> Rolls-Royce claims the Trent 900 problem is confined to a specific part in the turbine area. 21 of 38 A380s operated by Singapore Air, Qantas and Lufthansa use Rolls-Royce Trent 900 series engines. Singapore Air may have to replace 24 engines. Qantas is inspecting 14 engines which may shared among six planes—which may explain some of the strain evident in so many recent Qantas incidents. Six grounded super jumbos are costing Qantas a million dollars a day.

On the Airbus A380, bound for Sydney from Singapore, which was carrying 433 passengers and 26 crew members, an engine exploded over Batam, sending turbine shrapnel flying out of the plane’s engine, severing cables in the wing, taking out flight control systems and narrowly missing the fuel tank. With fuel gushing out of the fuel tank there and hot components, passengers are lucky the wing did not ignite.

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