Forty Rolls Royce Airbus A380 engines 'need replacing'

[Blue_Tires]

Source: BBC

Up to 40 Rolls-Royce engines on Airbus A380 superjumbos worldwide will need to be replaced, according to Australian airline Qantas.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce was speaking two weeks after a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on an A380 exploded in mid-air, forcing an emergency landing.

Qantas has grounded its six A380s since the incident.

The Trent 900 engines are used on A380s operated by Qantas, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines.

Between them the three airlines operate 20 A380 planes, each of which has four Rolls-Royce engines.

Mr Joyce told reporters at Sydney airport the airline had already replaced three engines on its planes.

"We've been talking to Airbus and Rolls-Royce and we understand that the number is around 40," he said.

"We'll have a daily dialogue with Rolls-Royce to determine which engines actually need to be taken off," he said.

'Specific component'

Investigators believe an oil leak inside the engines may have caused the fire on the Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney on 4 November.

Rolls-Royce has said the engine failure "was confined to a specific component" which led to an oil fire and loss of turbine pressure.

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Maybe in the future General Electric will step up with a revised replacement...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Airlines often get to choose which brand of engines they want

They have direct programs with the engine manufacturers, logistics chains etc.

[MineralMan]

2. Good news for Boeing, I'd think.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Boeing has subbed out A LOT of production overseas

I'd sure like to see a breakdown of US production of components and sub-assemblies Boeing vs Airbus. Though it's probable Boeing currently has the edge, they have made lots of noise ( to the business press mostly ) over the last dozen years about their desire to be a "virtual" aircraft manufacturer.

[Stella_Artois]

6. Not really

Rolls Royce make the engines for the 787 too, in fact a different version of the same family from the one on the A380.

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. MAYBE THEY SHOULD SCREEN THE 'SPLODING ENGINE...and quit grabbing my junk!!!

[Hawkeye-X]

4. GE should be a big beneficary of the this

RR will probably lose a large portion of business and go with GE after the Trent 900 failure.

I am IMPRESSED that there was no crash as a result, even thought the Qantas should have been easily one.

Hawkeye-X