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Engine failure grounds jumbo jet

Published:Friday | November 5, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Firefighters surround a Qantas passenger plane which made an emergency landing with 459 people aboard in Singapore's Changi International Airport after having engine problems yesterday. - ap
Pilots from the Qantas passenger plane which made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi International Airport after having engine problems are escorted out of the airport and on to buses which will be taking them to hotels, yesterday in Singapore. Qantas grounded all six of its Airbus 380 superjumbos after one blew out an engine yesterday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before the world's largest airliner made a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.
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SINGAPORE (AP):

Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine yesterday, shooting flames and raining large metal chunks before making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard.

It was, most serious midair incident involving the double-decker A380, the world's largest and latest airliner, since it debuted in October 2007 with Singapore Airlines flying it to Sydney, the same route that Qantas flight QF34 was flying when it was stricken.

Qantas said there had been no explosion, but witnesses aboard the plane and on the ground reported blasts. Officials in Indonesia said the engine trouble could not have been related to recent volcanic eruptions of Mount Merapi, some 800 miles (1,300 kilometres) to the east.