Special - Qantas QF32 - A380 Uncontained Engine Failure (4 of 4)

This is an Australian TV special about the uncontained engine failure on Qantas flight 32 that occurred 4 Nov 2010. Uploaded for international viewers.

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Science & Technology

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• flight
• plane
• airplane
• aeroplane
• documentary
• airbus
• rolls-royce
• trent
• 900
• four
• oil
• leak
• fire
• stub
• pipe
• singapore
• changi
• indonesia
• batam
• island
• australia
• sydney
• emergency
• pan-pan
• fuel
• explosion
• bang
• corners
• damage

[ImmortalSynn]

Um, since when does LAX have "short" runways???

[4c52]

@ImmortalSynn They aren't exactly short, they're just shorter than needed for an A380 to do a derated takeoff on long flights (like the regular one's to Sydney). LAX runways are between 3 and 3.6 km while the A380 requires 4 km for a derated takeoff on such flights.

[raulox71]

Rolls Royce = Cowards.

[Bulgdoom]

LMAO "We're gonna give him the Rolls Royce Treatment, No thanks"

[nezy76]

A credit to airbus and the people who build the a380. The aircraft landed under immense conditions

[Annon1100]

It's very easy to criticise people after an event, but surely they should have evacuated the aircraft using the door(s) furthest away from the fuel leeks as soon as it had stopped. This would obviously have taken a lot more than 90 seconds, but what they did by leaving everyone on the aircraft for an extra hour put them in unnecessary danger. The fuel could have ignited at any time during this period. Such an evacuation would have taken 10 minutes. Suppose it had exploded after 15 minutes!!

[SheffieldSteel1000]

Many thanks '4c52' for uploading this documentary.

It's scary how many things can go wrong with an aircraft engine and how a fault with such a tiny piece of it can potentially bring down a passenger aircraft! I guess we must take comfort though from the fact that so many thousands of A380 flights have been made worldwide without any engine dramas, and from the fact that flying is still by far the safest mode of transport.

[Kyleinasailing]

@airplanes66 Let's be absolutely clear about this. RR have very high standards - anyone in the industry can vouch for it. Of course it has nothing to do with Qantas and the crew of this aircraft did a really professional job. RR have compensated more than 100 million dollars US to Qantas. They have paid the price for a defective oil pipe no longer than 5 cm. Mistakes are always going to be made regardless of stringent safeguards. RR have learnt a lesson that they will not want to repeat again.

[airplanes66]

@addplusminus35 what else can you do? evacuating 500 people further towards the possible fire (the fuel was on the outside) could put them in more danger and having firemen near a running engine is simply asking for fatalities where there were none before.

[airplanes66]

@Kyleinasailing if i ran a airline with engines that cost several million pounds each you would expect that it wouldnt explode and indanger passengers lives. also after the incident rolls royce basicly left the explaining to qantas and much of the media blame would end up at qantas despite them having nothing to do with the engine or its maintence. then i could understand them being annoyed.

saftey when carring 500 people is paramount and rolls royce have safe inpection problems

[Kyleinasailing]

Good docu. But end comment by second in command not correct. RR engines are bloody good - and he well knows it. The captain of this aircraft was excellent, I would fly with him anywhere. C'mon Aussies don't be so f...... socailistic and show some balls. OK, so the engine blew up, what's the big deal? Get a new one and stick it on - now at special price. Now, get 500 people squash them in, close the door. I'm happy, you're happy. What's the problem brother?

[addplusminus35]

First, sitting on a leaking aircraft with hot brakes simply because an outboard engine is running is criminal. The passengers are lucky to be alive no thanks to a gross mishandling of the evacuation.

Second, Rolls Royce silence speaks volumes. I guarantee that have a paper trail which would almost criminalize their lack of action. They played the money game and the passengers almost paid the price.

[raulox71]

@John94098 Absolutely, they should take responsibility.