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Qantas jumbo makes emergency landing in Singapore
Yahoo! news/AP ^
| 11-4-10
| By JULIA ZAPPEI, Associated Press
Posted on 11/04/2010 5:43:55 AM PDT by stefanbatory
Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine Thursday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: a380; emergency; enginefailure; jumbo; landing; notbreakingnews; qantas; singapore
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AP story, see link.
To: stefanbatory
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:46:12 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
To: stefanbatory
If it ain’t Boeing, yadda yadda...
I fly Southwest anyway so it’s not an issue for me.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:46:25 AM PDT
by
Dan Nunn
(Support the NRA!)
To: stefanbatory
"...pucker factor 99.5%"
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:47:08 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: stefanbatory
There was a previous link here on FR, but it was a headline only...This one has much more detail.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:48:25 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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To: stefanbatory
Grounding a bunch of A380s will lead to a lot of less-than-satisfied customers..
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:50:02 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: TSgt
That had to be pretty exciting. In a "I need new pants" kind of way. The amazing thing is that the AC survived and landed with all souls.
/johnny
To: stefanbatory
Rain Man will be so disappointed.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:53:09 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: stefanbatory
Socialist built aircraft.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:53:44 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: JRandomFreeper
“Bring me my brown pants!”
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:53:47 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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To: stefanbatory
Airbus will blame Rolls-Royce, the engine manufacturer for this.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:56:48 AM PDT
by
ijrazz
To: stefanbatory
Has Qantas ever had crash? I don’t think it has.
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:58:56 AM PDT
by
Padams
To: ijrazz
I have some friends who work at RR...this could get interesting...
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posted on
11/04/2010 5:59:31 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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To: stefanbatory
In another seat, Tyler Wooster watched as part of the skin of the wing peeled off, exposing foam and broken wires... But "it's not like the aircraft is going to drop out of the sky,"
Yeah, right. Unless under the broken wing skin were wires controlling the ailerons, in which case it could have been another Iowa UA Flight 232 cornfield crash.
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:00:46 AM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: Padams
The closest they have come is the incident a few years back over the Philippines when an Oxygen canister exploded in a 747-400 and blew a 5 ft hole in the lower fuselage.
They still have never had a crash. :)
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:01:01 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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To: Dan Nunn
If it aint Boeing, yadda yadda...
You do realize that the engine has very little to do with who makes the rest of the aircraft? The A380 either uses RR Trent 900 engines or GE/PW engine alliance GP7000 engines. The Trent family of engines can be found on Boeing aircrafts like the original 777 (Trent 800) or the new 787 (Trent 1000), whereas the GP7000 is a close relative of the GE90, which can be found on the 777.
I fly Southwest anyway so its not an issue for me.
So it's French-American CFM56 (GE/Snecma) engines for you. Which are also used by Airbus on the A320 series (in addition to PW/RR IAE V2500 engines).
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:01:31 AM PDT
by
wolf78
(Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)
To: C210N
After Sioux City, plane mfrs began putting their redundant systems in different locations. This way a repeat of the engine shrapnel taking out all 3 hydraulic lines to the rudder simultaneously would be far less likely.
This plane load of people could p[ossibly have been saved because of new design procedures developed as a result of that crash and its ensuing investigation.
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:04:09 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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To: stefanbatory
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:05:21 AM PDT
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: A.A. Cunningham
ahhh...that explains why only the first of your links came up in my search. IT was still in the rumor phase at that time. The second link did not include the keyword “A380.”
I searched by both title and that keyword before posting.
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posted on
11/04/2010 6:09:51 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
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