Multiple Qantas airplanes returning due to engine problems in the same year... Sounds weird. Is it maintenance fault or simply planes becoming too old?
Sep 1, 2010… A Qantas B747 carrying 212 passengers returned to San Francisco yesterday after a mid-air engine failure punched a hole through the external cowling, or casing, of one engine. The plane made an emergency landing at San Francisco about 45 minutes after takeoff.
4 Nov 2010… Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 "Nancy-Bird Walton" VH-OQA, fitted with four Trent 972 engines manufactured by Rolls-Royce suffered a serious failure of its left inboard engine while taking off from Singapore Changi Airport.
5 Nov 2010… Qantas aircraft made a priority landing at Heathrow Airport in London on November 5 after problems with its hydraulic fuel system.
6 Nov 2010 ... In another incident in as many days, a Qantas 747 returns to Singapore after suffering problems with one its engines. ...
12 Nov 2010 ... QANTAS has been involved in yet another mid-air mishap, with passengers on their way to Melbourne from Perth forced to return after engine problems. The flight had to return to Perth Domestic Airport after the crew detected a vibration in the left-hand engine of the Boeing 767.
16 Nov 2010… A QANTAS plane en route to Argentina has been forced to return to Sydney after smoke started coming from an instrument panel in the cockpit, in the the latest in a string of incidents for the airline.
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