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Airbus Blowout Traced to Rolls-Royce Engine Oil Fire
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An engine explosion on an Airbus SAS A380 operated by Qantas Airways Ltd. was probably caused by an oil fire in one of the plane’s four Rolls-Royce Group Plc Trent 900 turbines, the European Aviation Safety Agency said.
The fire may have caused the disintegration of the engine’s intermediate pressure turbine disc, according to an emergency airworthiness directive published last night by EASA instructing operators to check for “abnormal oil leakage” in all Trent 900s.