Another Qantas airliner returns to Singapore with engine trouble (Passenger saw engine on fire) [View All]

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Source: USA Today

For the second time in two days, a Qantas airliner has been forced to return to Singapore because of engine trouble, the Associated Press reports, quoting a local TV station.

This time, the plane is a Boeing 747 carrying 431 en route to Sydney.

Channel News Asia quotes Qantas as saying that flight QF6 "experienced an issue with its No. 1 engine" shortly after takeoff.

On Thursday, a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-11-05-A38005_ST_N.htm">made an emergency landing after one of its four engines suffered a blowout, also while heading to Sydney.

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Passenger saw fire on engine of Qantas flight

By MAYE-E WONG
The Associated Press
Friday, November 5, 2010; 1:36 PM

SINGAPORE -- A Qantas Boeing 747 with 431 people on board landed safely in Singapore late Friday after an engine caught fire minutes after it took off from the city-state, the airline and a passenger said.

The problem arose just a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo jet made an emergency landing at the same airport due to an engine blowout.

"There was a loud bang and a jet of fire from the back of the engine," Andrew Jenkins, a 43-year-old Australian, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

Jenkins, who was sitting in seat 62A at the back of the plane on the left side, said he could see the engine clearly. The blast happened "one or two minutes" into the flight when the plane had climbed about 2,000 feet, according to Jenkins, who said he used to fly a two-seater plane.

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/05/AR2010110502646.html