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Related News Engine problems hit second Qantas aircraft Fri, Nov 5 2010 WRAPUP 8-Engine problems hit second Qantas aircraft Fri, Nov 5 2010 UPDATE 3-Qantas 747 lands in Singapore after engine problem Fri, Nov 5 2010 Analysis: Rolls Royce woes could boost GE, Pratt & Whitney Fri, Nov 5 2010 US data pushes European shares to 6-month high Fri, Nov 5 2010 Related Topics World » Australia » Aerospace & Defense » Stocks 1 / 9 Engineers inspect the outermost port engine of a Qantas Boeing 747, flight QF6, at Singapore's Changi airport November 6, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Vivek Prakash By Vivek Prakash and Michael Perry SINGAPORE/SYDNEY | Fri Nov 5, 2010 11:08pm EDT SINGAPORE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Engine trouble forced a Qantas Airways Ltd jet to make an emergency landing in Singapore on Friday, less than 48 hours after another of the Australian carrier's aircraft had to land prematurely because its engine blew up. The Sydney-bound Boeing 747-400 aircraft, with 412 people on board, returned to the airport 20 minutes after takeoff due to "an issue with one of its engines," Qantas Airways Ltd said in a statement. That came a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 jet was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its four Rolls-Royce Plc engines appeared to break apart in flight, scattering debris over an Indonesian island. "Around 20 minutes into the flight we heard a loud bang," Ranjan Sivagnanasundaram, an Australian citizen in his early 50s who was on Friday's flight, told Reuters. "It was a very big shock to us, especially after what happened yesterday. The Boeing Co aircraft also had been equipped with Rolls-Royce engines. Officials at British engine-maker Rolls-Royce did not return calls seeking comment. The earlier incident saw Qantas ground its fleet of six A380s pending safety checks that will take 24 to 48 hours and led other airlines to check their own A380s. "We believe this is probably, most likely, a material failure or some sort of design issue," Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce told a news conference in Sydney. "If we don't find any adverse findings in those checks, the aircraft will resume operations." Separately, a European Union air safety body confirmed it told airlines in August to make checks after finding "wear, beyond engine manual limits," on the type of Rolls-Royce engines fitted to the Qantas jet and some other A380s. The incidents could provide Rolls' rivals General Electric Co and the Pratt & Whitney unit of United Technologies Corp with a chance to grab market share from the No. 2 engine-maker. "Things move slowly in the engine business, but there is no question that you have a series of events that really put Rolls-Royce's reputation at risk," said Richard Aboulafia, vice president at aviation consultancy Teal Group. GE is the world's largest maker of jet engines, Pratt comes in third. AIRLINES INSPECT A380S The A380 engine failure on Thursday was the biggest incident to date for the world's largest passenger plane, which went into service in 2007. Rolls-Royce and Airbus parent EADS told operators of the Rolls-equipped A380 jets to have them inspected. 1 2 3 Next World Australia Aerospace & Defense Comments See All Comments (1) | Post Comment Nov 05, 2010 11:54pm EDT This is a completly bogus statement: “The fact that it survived the damage is a credit to the design. Twenty years ago that would probably have taken the aircraft out of the sky,” said John Page, senior lecturer in Aerospace Engineering at the University of New South Wales. It was nearly 20 years ago that a Boeing 747 bound from Honolulu to Sydney had a major sidewall blowout (incorrectly closed door on that side of the plane) that took out both the #3 and #4 engines (right wing). The plane was almost 90 minutes out from Honolulu and even without a map handy, it’s clear that there’s nowhere to go but back back to Honolulu. The plane flew for another 90 minutes and executed a landing with only two engines on the same side. I don’t know how old that particular plane was, but the first 747 flew in 1969. Modern aircraft designs (Boeing, Airbus) have had this kind of reliability for a lot longer than 20 years. Perhaps John Page “the expert” is only 20 years old and doesn’t know about this well known event. iq160 Report As Abusive See All Comments (1) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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