Another A380 engine explosion!

[neddy]

Emirates A380 in a Sydney mid-air engine explosion
Leigh van den Broeke From: The Daily Telegraph November 12, 2012 11:28AM

PEOPLE WAIT AT SYDNEY AIRPORT. PICTURE: STEVE HARRIS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

DISTRESSED passengers told how they survived a mid-air emergency last night when an Emirates A380's engine exploded at 10,000 feet and forced it to turn back for an emergency landing.


About 20 minutes after leaving Sydney, Emirates flight EK413 experienced an "engine fault'' en route to Dubai.

"I saw a flash,'' John Fothergill, 49, from Auckland, said. "I thought it could have been lightning but then we saw flames come out of the engine. The whole interior of the A380 lit up.

"You'd have to say there were two or three metre flames. (The) explosion shook the plane, there was a bigger judder.''

Emirates flight attendants responded by moving straight to the windows that faced out to the engine.

They observed the damaged and asked the passengers what they had seen.

Mr Fothergill's wife, Dr Amal Aburawi, questioned how the Emirates staff reacted and said, "The staff panicked more than the passengers.''

She said: "Everyone was running left and right (with) no one knowing what's happened.''

"I was in the same incident in 1988 when I was travelling on Alitalia, (so) it was (a) flash back to what happened (there). It was exactly the same (but) the way it was being handled on Alitalia was so organised and calmer than what's happened tonight.''
Dr Aburawi furthermore criticised Emirate's flight attendants for not properly informing some non-English speaking passengers of the incident.

"I'm a frequent flyer on Emirates,'' she said. "Usually its Arabic announcement following the English, (but) this time no one mentioned anything in Arabic and there (were) many Arabic passengers, many of them old ladies.

"I held (an Emirates flight attendant) by the hand and said, 'Can you ask someone to do the announcement in Arabic because there are Arabic people who will not understand what's happening with this panic situation'.

"(She said she would) send Arabic speaking staff to tell them and calm them down. (But) I checked with them when we landed and no one spoke to them. They don't know why we landed back in Sydney.

"This is where I feel angry, I feel angry for the way non-English speaking passengers faced this situation.

"Emirates should be well trained in this.

"I hope Emirates will get some lessons out of this.''

Emirates said an "engine fault'' was to blame for the incident.
The pilot contacted ground crew at Sydney Airport and a decision was made to dump fuel and turn the plane around.

Emirates said, "Passengers are being re-booked on alternative flights (and) Emirates apologises for any inconvenience caused to its customers.'

 

[giggity_shit]

waaa.... and our SIA fleets going to be all A380 soon?

 

[neddy]

Emirates powers all its fleet of 14 A380s with engines by General Electric Co. and Pratt & Whitney, not the Rolls Royce Trent engines used by Qantas.


Emirates reputation at stake here.

Mr Fothergill's wife, Dr Amal Aburawi, questioned how the Emirates staff reacted and said, "The staff panicked more than the passengers.''

She said: "Everyone was running left and right (with) no one knowing what's happened.''

"I was in the same incident in 1988 when I was travelling on Alitalia, (so) it was (a) flash back to what happened (there). It was exactly the same (but) the way it was being handled on Alitalia was so organised and calmer than what's happened tonight.''

 

[mulvi74]

Difference is this failure is contained
Unlike QF when alf the plane fell onto Batam

 

[mollusk]

Emirates powers all its fleet of 14 A380s with engines by General Electric Co. and Pratt & Whitney, not the Rolls Royce Trent engines used by Qantas.


Emirates reputation at stake here.

didnt know that A380 have different engines manufacture for it....

 

[Leongsam]

Bird strike?

 

[Fook Seng]

Bird strike?

Must be pollution over Sydney. Australia somehow is involved in a lot of these A380 problems.

 

[neddy]

Must be pollution over Sydney. Australia somehow is involved in a lot of these A380 problems.

Too far away from civilization,

 

[essen]

scary.. luckily it's only 20 mins after flying.. imagine they were half way into the journey, what would happen

 

[singveld]

dun fly terrorist airline, full of fat old women, in case of EE, imagine how these people will clog up the exit. Disaster.

 

[goondusamy]

Emirates said an "engine fault'' was to blame for the incident.
The pilot contacted ground crew at Sydney Airport and a decision was made to dump fuel and turn the plane around.

Next time when we have oily rain, we know why.

 

[roadrunner]

I never liked the A380, it's like a cattle pen, why pay good money to fly in a large crowded plane

Fly the 777 instead, more leg room & space, better service too, stewards all happy, pilot happy, you're happy.

 

[syed putra]

Must be pollution over Sydney. Australia somehow is involved in a lot of these A380 problems.

In fact, too many plane problems coming from australia. i wonder if there is a sabotage by one of the maintenance staff.

 

[neddy]

I never liked the A380, it's like a cattle pen, why pay good money to fly in a large crowded plane

Fly the 777 instead, more leg room & space, better service too, stewards all happy, pilot happy, you're happy.

http://www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.a...e-failure-in-two-days-hits-sydney-flight.html



Emirates, which until last week seemed the golden carrier that could do no wrong, is suddenly facing a public relations crisis after two of its flagship A380s suffered engine failures in two days – including one shortly after leaving Sydney yesterday that forced the aircraft to turn back.

The engine failure was the second such incident to hit an Emirates A380 in two days.

In the weekend, the Emirates A380 service from Dubai to JFK New York diverted to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after the pilots shut down one of its engines over Slovakia.

The A380 engine shutdowns reportedly involved Engine Alliance engines, so there would seem to be no connection with the Rolls-Royce engine failure that almost downed a Qantas A380 in 2010. That one led to the grounding of much of the world’s A380 fleet while checks were carried out.


The alarming mishaps came shortly after an Emirates B777 made an emergency landing in India following an engine fire alert (see our earlier story: Emirates B777 lands safely after mid-air engine fire alert)

 

[jubilee1919]

In fact, too many plane problems coming from australia. i wonder if there is a sabotage by one of the maintenance staff.

Sabotage by one or more is a good possibility. I think there are problems within Qantas's relations with it's employees, operations as well as maintenance. Therefore sabotage and other costly downtime cannot be ruled out.

 

[QXD]

Could not agree more.