An Airbus A380 flew for nearly 300 hours with a 4-foot-long tool left inside one of its engines
An engineer had left the tool in the engine, thinking someone else would need to use it again later on, a safety report said.
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Qantas Airbus A380 flew for 294 hours with tool left inside engine
A Qantas Airbus A380 flew for hundreds of hours before it was discovered a tool had been left inside one of its engines. The incident came to light on Thursday in an Australian Transport Safety ...
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Qantas A380 operated 34 cycles with lost tool in engine
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has underlined the risk of foreign object debris after a Qantas Airways A380 ...
Qantas take note, this is how you do business class on a superjumbo
When it comes to the pointy end, Emirates is all class. Its Australian codeshare partner needs to start paying attention.
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Qantas A380 flew dozens of flights with tool lodged in engine
A Qantas Airbus A380 completed nearly 300 flight hours with a technician’s tool lodged in an engine, an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report says. The report has made recommendations ...
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Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with meter-long tool left inside engine
Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool An Airbus A380 ...
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Qantas A380 completed 34 trips despite 'significant threat' from unexpected item later found in plane's engine
According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), maintenance engineers did not commence the "lost tool procedure" prior to the Qantas aircraft being released to service. The nylon tool ...
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ATSB: Qantas Airbus A380 Flew Several Flights With A Tool Left In The Engine At LAX
Australian investigators have disclosed that mechanics found a tool inside a Qantas Airbus A380 engine after it has been missing for a month at LAX.
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Asiana Doubles US Airbus A380 Flights Next Summer
The latest information shows that Los Angeles will have eight daily A380 departures on Thursdays and Saturdays (i.e., when Qantas' A380s operate to Melbourne), and seven daily on the other days. The ...