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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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Qantas Chief hope rooted A380 fleet flying "days."

Damage to engine which exploded in the Qantas A380 aircraft.

The airline grounded in its six A380 aircraft after a power outage on Thursday for a flight aircraft engine Australia, which forced it to make an emergency landing at Singapore.


However, Alan Joyce, Chief Executive of Qantas, said he was optimistic that the engines on most large passenger plane planet would send urgent checks.


During an event in Sydney to mark the anniversary of the foundation of Qantas in 1920, Mr. Joyce said: "we are confident that in the days, we will have our fleet A380 flies again.


The failure of engine during the week marked the largest incident so far largest passenger aircraft in the world, which is in service since 2007 .the ' incident has also forced other airlines to check their order to.


In a second incident Friday, a Boeing 747 flying in Australia was forced to turn Singapour.M.Joyce said on this plane engine produces "smoke and Sparks" but he called a "engine failure contained" and said he has no plan for founding the company 747 fleet. "We are not concerned by our 747, fleet", said Mr. Joyce.


Incidents, however, cast a shadow on Qantas, anniversary celebration on Saturday, a visit by Hollywood actor John Travolta, who is a pilot and an aviation enthusiast.


Travolta put to test his own vintage old Qantas delivered for cameras to express his personal support for the company aƩrienne.M 707.Travolta said: "the Qantas brand around the world is very strong."


Although on Thursday and Friday Rolls-Royce engines, Qantas spokesperson said they were of different types and separate incidents. "They are different aircraft, and various moteurs.Ils are very different incidents, ", said the spokesperson.


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