A380 engine blow up Grounding News

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Trying to get a link that works.

http://news.google.com/?hl=en-GB

Qantas grounds A380s after engine blast
The Australian - Steve Creedy, Peter Alford - ‎1 hour ago‎
Firefighters surround the Qantas superjumbo after it made an emergency landing at Changi airport in Singapore following an explosion in one of its four engines.
 
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Pretty impressive that a 30MW power station can blow up on the wing of an aeroplane and it just means you are slightly delayed on your holiday.
 
NobodySpecial said:
Pretty impressive that a 30MW power station can blow up on the wing of an aeroplane and it just means you are slightly delayed on your holiday.

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This is real testament to the safety of this aircraft even in the face of a chatastrophic disaster. Passengers said they felt a lot of vibration before the explosion, I wonder if the engine lost a turbine blade, vibrating it apart...
 
Losing a compressor blade makes a mess of an engine , losing a blade in the high pressure end is rarer.
Could even just be an engine stall - the amount of burning on the back end doesn't really tell you how bad it was.
 
As others said earlier - such things happened in the past and will happen in the future. Impressive engineering part is that nobody get hurt.