Quantas suspends all Airbus A380 flights
 

Quantas has suspended all Airbus A380 flights after the issue with the plane leaving Singapore.

looked like a birdstrike, they should suspend all birds instead.

Not much info from Reuters other than an engine failure. Pictures are circulating that engine parts have been found on the ground. The plane did land safely and no one was hurt.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSDY4ME64420101104

Maybe - the engine broke apart though from the photos showing debris on the ground. The plane was about 25-30 miles out of Singapore too.

More info and photos here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...ds-safely.html

from my old pilot days I remember that birds when migrating can fly up to 30,000 feet and they do serious damage to aircraft, large and small. heres one that happened on takeoff

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9KhZwsYtNDE

I bet the media wouldn't be making such a big deal about it if it wasn't the super giant A380 that everybody was betting against.

Both bird strikes (most likely cause) and flying with an engine down are common.

I'd be willing to bet we wouldn't even know about it if it were a 747.

Agreed, just seems odd Quantas would ground other flights if it was a bird strike.

Sure, the plane has something to do with it and the fact that Quantas has never had a crashed plane too. Both add to the hype. The engine failure would be no issue if it was just a simple shutdown but something exploded causing parts to fall off the plane. We'd here about that on a 747 too.

I think everybody still thinks these planes are impossible and this must be a sign of a bigger problem. Damn this story is getting a lot of traction.

I have not seen one in person, but the sheer size of the A380 that is evident in photos and video is unbelievable. The Saudi's or whoever bought one to modify it to a private jet have a flying palace with something like 9k square feet of living space.

It is indeed a flying behemoth.

Interesting tidbit - could it have been volcano debris in the air?

Would be a wild ride for sure.

http://images.ninemsn.com.au/resizer....jpg&width=310

P.S Qantas not Quantas ;)

Apparently, the pilot was very confident in the plane's ability to fly as they flew for 2 hours dumping fuel before landing according to a passenger on board. Can't imagine it takes that long to dump fuel so not sure what else was going on there.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...rgency/?hpt=T2

Birds tend to explode when they hit the compressor of a turbine engine.

Well, at least from the looks of the picture, it wasn't a god damned fan disc
I can't remember what kind of plane that was
But a god damned tiny hairline crack looking imperfection caused the fucking plane to come down 25 odd years later on some airplane

Who knows i drink too much

I will catch the boat when I got to USA :) I might even swim. :)

You'd shit yourself if you were looking out the window and saw the engine go up in flames. Yikes!!!

United Airlines Flight 232 out of Sioux City on July 19, 1989. Aircraft was a DC-10, disc fan failure.

November 3, 1973 - National Airlines Flight 27, a DC-10-10 experienced an uncontained failure of the right (#3) engine. The cabin was penetrated by shrapnel from the engine and lost pressure. One passenger was killed.

June 13, 1996 ? Garuda Indonesia Flight 865, DC-10-30 PK-GIE had just taken off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan when a high-pressure blade from engine #3 separated. The aircraft was just a few feet above the runway and the pilot decided to abort the take-off. Consequently, the DC-10 skidded off the runway and came to a halt 1,600 ft (490 m) past it, having lost one of its engines and its landing gear.

March 26, 2009 - an Arrow Air DC-10 en route from Manaus, Brazil to Bogotá, Colombia sustained an engine failure during flight. Large pieces from the engine fell onto the town of Manaus damaging 12 houses, but causing no injuries. The aircraft managed to land safely in Colombia.

I always prefered Boeing much more, especially for long flights

I wouldn't. I am un fucking believably calm under pressure. I've been in situations where I was about to be killed and I was just straight. Level and calm. My god damned family can make my chest all tight and give me a heart attack but things like a plane going down or people shooting at me does not do it.

One time I was driving my Cadillac over 90mph and BLAM a front tire blew out and I just kind of sat there letting it come down and maintained perfect control and there was no problem at all. Everyone else in the car almost pissed themselves and one of them was kind of screaming. LoL.

Fuck

YES!!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cU2mqOLzlfU
Plane crash documentaries like these are oddly comforting to me, and they help me sleep. I watch one on repeat/autoplay every night to help me to sleep. And, strange as it may seem - it helps me fly

Sometimes makes you woinder just how far we have really come:

Being human fucking sucks