With the Qantas A380 incident yesterday being a "sucesseful outcome" with everyone on board making it down safely, a smaller incident happened yesterday, but will all occupants lost.An AeroCaribbean ATR72-200 operating between Santiago de Cuba to Havana crashed near in mountains near the town of Guasimal in Santi Spiritus province..No cause has been idenfied for the reason of … [Read more...]

Positive news from Qantas this morning with an announcement that:"Overnight, Qantas engineers with Airbus and Rolls-Royce engineers have been working around the clock trying to identify what are the potential root causes to the problem on QF32" "As a consequence of that work we've agreed with Airbus and Rolls-Royce a regime of checks that are going to take place on the … [Read more...]

I'm not overly qualified to speak technially on the QF32 incident, so therefore I'll point you in a few resources that can ;)I'd strongly recommend heading to FlightBlogger who has got excellent coverage- http://www.flightglobal.com/flightblogger/2010/11/qantas-a380-fleet-grounded.html- http://www.flightglobal.com/flightblogger/2010/11/qantas-flight-32-and-a380s-hyd.htmlIn … [Read more...]

Qantas has gone on record (and defensive) in regards to the Engine Containment Failure on Thursday, quote"We believe this is most likely some kind of material failure or a design issue," Qantas CEO Alan JoyceIt was also quoted by Alan Joyce that the"it was too early to say what exactly caused the problem, but he said the blowout was "an engine issue" and not one of … [Read more...]

Lufthansa, an A380 operater who uses Trent Engines have annouced to Flight that they will not be grounding their A380's.To quote:"We are looking in to data from our engine condition monitoring" Lufthansa are awaiting an advisory from Rolls-Royce on the matter, but airline is not planning to suspend A380 services at this time.Further coverage continues later. … [Read more...]