Qantas Flight 32 · Batam
On November 4, 2010, Qantas Flight 32 (Batam). No one was seriously hurt.
- Date
- November 4, 2010
- Place
- Batam
- Operator
- Qantas Airways
- Killed
- 0
- Position
- 1.110°N, 104.040°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q1135895
From Wikipedia
Qantas Flight 32 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore. On 4 November 2010, the Airbus A380 operating the route suffered an uncontained failure in one of its four Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. The failure occurred over the Riau Islands, Indonesia, four minutes after takeoff from Singapore Changi Airport. After holding for almost two hours to assess the situation, the aircraft made a successful emergency landing at Changi. No injuries occurred to the passengers, crew, or people on the ground, despite debris from the aircraft falling onto houses in Batam.
On inspection, it was found that a turbine disc in the aircraft's number-two engine (on the port side nearer the fuselage) had disintegrated, causing extensive damage to the nacelle, wing, fuel system, landing gear, flight controls, and engine controls, and a fire in a fuel tank that self-extinguished. The subsequent investigation concluded that the failure had been caused by the breaking of a stub oil pipe which had been manufactured improperly.
Text from Wikipedia, “Qantas Flight 32”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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