30/09/2017: Air France Flight Paris to LA Diverted to Canada

[tomahawk6]

The Airbus 380 engine blew apart in flight.The 520 passengers landed safely at landed safely at CFB Goose Bay.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrifying-video-footage-shows-airbus-11266151

Air traffic control.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=Air+France+flight+diverted+to+Goose+Bay#id=6&vid=eb137c6e0345d5040d71be9c3bef118c&action=click

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[Colin Parkinson]

My friend works at MTU here in Vancouver, going by his description of how they strip, repair and reassemble the engine, once they take the engine apart, they will know exactly why it happened and who worked on that part. MTU apparently has a policy that a mistake admitted is forgiven and a lie to cover a mistake will get you fired. Cheaper to take a reassembled engine apart, then to have a failure mid flight. 

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

They seem to have problems with those engines, don't they?

Just a quick look up at AeroInside listing for A380's events show that the plane, in wide service for only 8 years now, already has 9 in-flight engine shutdown incidents, 6 more events called simply Engine Problems, and of course, the infamous Quantas flight 32 event, in november 2010 where an engine exploded in flight (in a more damaging way that the Air France latest explosion) that led to the withdrawal of 53 Trent engines from various A380's after inspections.

 

[YZT580]

Quantas was a Rolls Royce while this one is a GE I think.  Their big problem is going to be fixing it.  The facilities in Goose are not up to handling a project that size so everything will have to be brought in plus it looks like there was leading edge damage.  It isn't going to be cheap or quick

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Apparently the MTU facility in Vancouver is taxed as well, the USAF dropped a contract they had, so MTU acquired new customers, the USAF US based engine overhaul facility is not living up to expectation, so USAF has asked MTU to continue to overhaul their engines till the other place can get their act together, so likely that MTU will be hiring again in a bit.