Rolls Royce motor on Quantas A380 shatters in mid-air

On two separate occasions, Rolls Royce engines on the Airbus A380 have failed during flight. The Rolls Royce engine on an Airbus A380 disintegrated on a Quantas flight Thurs. A Rolls Royce motor failed on a Singapore Airlines flight en route to Singapore from Paris in September. Thursdays motor failure sent stock down for both Rolls Royce and EADS, the parent business of Airbus.

Elementary school gets parts with A380 engine malfunction

Six Airbus A380s were grounded by the Quantas, Australia's national airport. This was because an airliner, just six minutes after leaving the Singapore Changi Airport, had its Rolls Royce engine explode. Engine pieces flew and hit the A380's wing. It had been even ripped off. Others fell on the Indonesian island of Batam. Chunks of the motor fell on the roof of an elementary institution. A staffer at the school told The Australian that an explosion was heard and everybody ran outside and saw the plane circling. Metal begun to fall from the sky. It went onto the school then. Rattling might be felt in the cabin of the airplane. Passengers described listening to an explosion and loud bang. An emergency landing was made by the plane at the Changi airport.

The Airbus A380 had some Superjumbo

In September a Rolls Royce motor on an Airbus A380 flown by Singapore Airlines failed two and a half hrs into a flight from Paris to Singapore. The largest passenger jet in the world is what the Airbus A380 is known for. There are four engines in this double deck and wide body jet. The nickname "Superjumbo" had been given to it. If the A380 is all coach, there could be 853 passengers. If you will find three classes, about 525 passengers can fit. At 560 mph, it can go to Hong Kong from New York nonstop. The A380 is intended to fly on three engines. The pilots of the plane bound for Singapore turned around anyway due to the length of the flight.

A380 goes down and so does stock

Even after the September engine failure, the 11 A380s that Singapore Airlines experienced still kept going. However, after Quantas grounded its fleet of A380s Thursday, Singapore Airlines followed suit. Rolls Royce and Airbus advised the airline to perform precautionary technical checks on the engines. Rolls Royce stock fell as far as 5.5 percent. About a 4.3 percent drop in stock took place for European Aeronautic, Defense & Space Co., which is Airbus' parent.

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The Australian

theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/qantas-grounds-a380s-after-engine-blast/story-fn59niix-1225948047085

Bloomberg

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CNN

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