This A380 Engine Explosion Looks Quite Scary [Video]

Last week, a Qantas Airbus A380 had to make an emergency landing in Singapore, after one of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines exploded. Rolls-Royce has admitted there’s a controversy. Well, that is how the difficulty looks when it actually happens.

As as a result of this incident, Qantas has grounded its A380 fleet for two weeks, Singapore Airlines pulled the complete Trent 900s from three A380s, and Lufthansa has changed one engine from one of its mastodon planes.

But there’s more than the difficulty that made the engine to blow up mid-flight. Consistent with Jon Ostrander at Flight Global , ” the failure inside the number two engine was uncontained, as parts penetrated the wing.”

This happened because the engine seriously is not designed to contain a failure on its entirety. Only the front part can contain the engine’s blades when it comes to an explosion, but anything else of the casing isn’t designed to achieve this. Consistent with america National Transportation Safety Board, uncontained disk failure is ” mitigated by designating disks as safety-critical parts, defined as the parts of an engine whose failure is more likely to present an immediate hazard to the aircraft.”

It seems that a) their safety design principle only looks good on paper, b) Rolls-Royce has not one but two problems within the Trent 900 engine and c) the passengers and crew got lucky. [ Flight Global ]

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