QF32 388 - emergency landing in SIN after Engine failure

[simongr]

Joyce just announced that they are suspending all A380 flights.

 

[Paddy55]

Its times like this being a WP comes in handy.

Amen

Paddy

 

[el_rooto]

Re: QF 32 A380 out of action - who is inconvenienced?

Rolls-Royce Trent 900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A380. In October 2000, the Trent 900 became the A380's launch engine when Singapore Airlines specified the engine for its order for 10 A380s; this was quickly followed by Qantas in February 2001.

Also: Twitter: @ghimlay

SIA says it has no plans to ground its A380s, in response to questions on whether it will follow Qantas' move.

 

[samh004]

Re: QF 32 A380 out of action - who is inconvenienced?

Does anyone think SQ, EY and AF will ground their 380's?

Was just wondering the same thing (though I think it's EK, and maybe LH also?)...do they use the same engines as QF I wonder.

AF and EK use Engine Alliance, but SQ and LH use RR. I’m not sure if it’s the exact same model though, but I do think they’ll be interested in the outcome of the investigation.

 

[samh004]

Joyce just announced that they are suspending all A380 flights.

Actually… that happened at 4

 

[YQY]

Joyce is on 7.30 report

 

[YQY]

Joyce called the issue significant and A380 will be off the air off indefinately until QF and ATSB are happy.

 

[MatF]

I can only imagine the $$ a bunch of idle A380s would be costing for any significant outage.

EDIT: just noticed an orange splash across the top of the QF website now, linking to:
http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/disruptions/global/en

 

[FlyboyAl]

Joyce just announced that they are suspending all A380 flights.

That's why I'm waiting for the phone call! Not a WP just a silver.

 

[codash1099]

Just noticed something. What is the bit that is in the red circle?

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Edit: Just saw this pic on twitter: Christopher Lee - interviewed on tonight's PM - took thi... on Twitpic

Very square edges - could be a hatch of some sort.

 

[tuapekastar]

Joyce is on 7.30 report

Saw that, was waiting for Kerry to ask him the tough questions...like what are they doing about WP anytime lounge access, but oddly, he didn't ask that. :shock:

The other 380 operators have all stated they're not grounding them...from The Age

 

[markis10]

Imagine being the person that took this picture (posted on pprune), it took 2 hours for the dump and another two hours to get all the pax off after landing:

 

[moa999]

website of the guy who took the wing photo and has been on a few quotes
waschbusch.com

planetalking has interesting airworthiness report on the RR Trent engine.

pprune suggests parts may have sheared hydraulic system - hence gear doors open and engine 1 still spinning (see the water photo and look at the spray out the back of the engine)

 

[matty744]

Nothing that hasn't been reported elsewhere but might be good to keep an eye on over the next 72 hrs
ATSB QF 32 Report

The lack of control over engine 1 and the open landing gear doors seen in some pics might point to some of the control and hydraulic lines may have been impacted by whatever went through the wing structure.
In any case great job by the crew to land with 1 engine down and the other on the same side non responsive as it sounds like from a few reports. Im sure more will surface soon, but they sure earned their pay today.

 

[straitman]

pprune suggests parts may have sheared hydraulic system - hence gear doors open and engine 1 still spinning (see the water photo and look at the spray out the back of the engine)

This would certainly explain why the firies were spraying the #1 engine when it was #2 engine that failed.

Either way, even with the engine failure the A380 still had one more engine running than my A330 will have next Monday!

 

[kamchatsky]

Good to see everyone is OK. Not sure why QF always seemed to have these kind of incidents ....

 

[el_rooto]

Rumor mill claims RAAF will be hiring A380's to replace the F111's. They're both designed to drop stuff on Indonesia

 

[Sprucegoose]

I can only imagine the $$ a bunch of idle A380s would be costing for any significant outage.

EDIT: just noticed an orange splash across the top of the QF website now, linking to:
Qantas Major Disruptions - where we keep you informed of developments and the choices that are available to you

I would say it could well become a claim against RR.

 

[serfty]

Here' s the ABC interview AJ with KO'B:

• Joyce discusses A380 engine failure - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[straitman]

Good to see everyone is OK. Not sure why QF always seemed to have these kind of incidents ....

Because of all the anti Qantas paranoia and hype you hear about all the QF incidents but not much about when it happens to others.