Category: Qantas

Qantas A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, completing its QF32 flight from Singapore 16 months and $139 million in repairs later after its explosive uncontained engine failure on November 4 2010. As QF32 VH-OQA touched down on Sydney’s Runway 16 Right at about 9.20am on Sunday morning, arriving on time despite

Qantas Engineering representatives ceremoniously handed over the technical log book for repaired Airbus A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton in Singapore on Saturday morning, ahead of the aircraft’s return to Sydney overnight. VH-OQA has undergone extensive repairs in Singapore following the explosive uncontained failure of one of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines when operating flight QF32 from

Qantas Freight Enterprises has announced plans for a weekly cargo flight from Sydney to Chongqing, China, with continuing service to Chicago. The service, which will make its maiden voyage tomorrow, will depart Sydney on Friday evenings as QF7583. It arrives in Chongqing early Saturday morning before departing for Chicago via Shanghai that afternoon. The flight

The uncontained failure of a Qantas 747’s RB211  engine near San Francisco in 2010 was caused by the fracture of an ageing engine turbine blade, the ATSB has confirmed. Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has already concluded that a fatigue fracture of a single stage-2 low pressure turbine blade inside the RB211 was to blame for the