A Singapore Airlines Ltd. (SIA) Airbus A380 flight to Hong Kong returned to its base after 20 minutes in the air when one of the plane’s four Rolls-Royce Plc Trent engines shut down, the carrier said.
The A380 with 368 passengers and 21 crew aboard landed normally at 11:17 a.m. yesterday and no one was injured, Nick Ionides, a Singapore Airlines spokesman, said in a telephone interview. The engine shut off “due to surge and high vibrations.”
The incident comes almost nine months after a Trent engine on an A380 operated by Qantas Airways Ltd. exploded. Full story
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