Qantas discovers oil leaks in three A380 Rolls-Royce engines

National carrier docked Australia his command of six two-storey, latest and the greatest aircraft the planet after a burst is engine minutes in a flight from Singapore and Sydney last week, scattering debris on Batam Island the Indonesia. The aircraft made a safe emergency landing Singapore.

Engineers conducted eight hours of checking on each engine during the weekend.

"All these engines are new engines on a new type of aircraft," said Mr. Joyce. "Engines do not perform the settings that you would expect in this.?

Accordingly, he said, any control of the company will be anchored to the less additional 72 hours.

"We will not take all the risks that this soit.Nous want to ensure that we have a 100 percent secure operation."

All three affected engines have been removed from the plans for further testing and will be replaced by spare engines that the airline has in hand, said Mr. Joyce.

"Accordingly, it is now our attention on the issue, shrinking" he said.

Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, other airlines to fly A380 Trent 900 engines, Rolls-Royce also briefly on their planes last week but resume services after checks.

The Australian Bureau of leading international investigation into incident blowing A380, the transportation safety has appealed to the residents of Batam Island the Indonesia to find a missing element of a turbine disc.

"The restoration of this disk can be crucial for an understanding of the nature of the engine failure and may have implications for the prevention of future similar events" Office said in a statement.

He has published a photograph of a room shredded and curved disk turbine of the Trent 900 engine and asked anyone pourrait found a similar piece should hand in the police.

Rolls-Royce said the investigation is in its infancy and that it is too early to draw conclusions.

M. Joyce would not specify how Qantas has lost since the explosion of the engine, nor is it comment if Qantas plans to seek redress of Rolls-Royce.

"We work with Airbus and Rolls-Royce to solve this problem - it is our absolute priority and compensation talks will take place after the aircraft is back in the air,"he said.""

The news of the day adds to problems of Rolls-Royce, after most of £ billion was struck from the value of the action in the wake of Qantas A380 incident Thursday.

engineering firm is also pursued by his rival U.S.claims of Trent engine used in the widebody A380 programme builds on the Pratt & Whitney swept fan blade design.


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