Another Qantas airliner returns to Singapore with engine trouble (Passenger saw engine on fire)

[Turborama]

Source: USA Today

For the second time in two days, a Qantas airliner has been forced to return to Singapore because of engine trouble, the Associated Press reports, quoting a local TV station.

This time, the plane is a Boeing 747 carrying 431 en route to Sydney.

Channel News Asia quotes Qantas as saying that flight QF6 "experienced an issue with its No. 1 engine" shortly after takeoff.

On Thursday, a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-11-05-A38005_ST_N.htm">made an emergency landing after one of its four engines suffered a blowout, also while heading to Sydney.

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/11/qantas-airliner-again-returns-to-singapore-with-engine-trouble-/1

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Passenger saw fire on engine of Qantas flight

By MAYE-E WONG
The Associated Press
Friday, November 5, 2010; 1:36 PM

SINGAPORE -- A Qantas Boeing 747 with 431 people on board landed safely in Singapore late Friday after an engine caught fire minutes after it took off from the city-state, the airline and a passenger said.

The problem arose just a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet made an emergency landing at the same airport due to an engine blowout.

"There was a loud bang and a jet of fire from the back of the engine," Andrew Jenkins, a 43-year-old Australian, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Jenkins, who was sitting in seat 62A at the back of the plane on the left side, said he could see the engine clearly. The blast happened "one or two minutes" into the flight when the plane had climbed about 2,000 feet, according to Jenkins, who said he used to fly a two-seater plane.

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110502646.html

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. So this an engine used not only in the 380...

...but is found on other aircraft. UT? Rolls-Royce? GE?

[inwiththenew]

3. I think it is RR

At least that is what I read in one article on the A380 incident. I could be wrong though.

[PacerLJ35]

8. Same company but different engines

Rolls Royce makes a number of different types of engines. The Boeing 747-400 uses a variant of the RB211 engine, which is a different family of engine than the Trent 900 type used on the A380. For what it's worth, there are literally thousands of aircraft that use Rolls-Royce engines. I fly C-130s and every version of the C-130 has some type of Rolls Royce (formerly Allison) engine, either the T56 or the AE2100.

[BeHereNow]

2. Scary thing to witness as the passenger, I would think.

I don't like flying for several reasons and I think
this article just deepened my concerns about it.

BHN

[Blue_Tires]

4. time to focus attention on how Qantas maintains their engines...

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Does Quantas outsource their maintance?

If so, where?

[KeepItReal]

9. +1

Good question.

[Violet_Crumble]

10. They've been outsourcing it for a few years now, I think...

Qantas' reputation when it comes to safety has been slipping for a fair while now

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2352282.htm

I'm absolutely terrified of flying, and the only thing that used to get me onto a plane when I travelled for work was that I'd only fly Qantas coz at least I felt slightly safe. Now I'm just as scared of flying with them as I am with Virgin...

[enlightenment]

6. Are they flying through areas with heavier concentrations of

volcanic ash?

Could that cause a flame out and/or explosion?

[petronius]

7. The article says another RR engine failed during test at Boeing in August - 3 serious

failures in 3 months ought to raise a huge number of red flags, I would think...

[denem]

11. I gave up flying Qantas 5 years ago.

Before outsourcing they were the safest carrier in the world.

Very sad.