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A MELBOURNE-bound Qantas flight has avoided midair disaster after one of its engines caught fire nearly two hours after taking off.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Michael Walker confirmed the Qantas flight was forced to land.
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“We have been notified of a Qantas flight that took off from Los Angeles and experienced severe engine troubles and was forced to return to Los Angeles International Airport,” he said.
A passenger, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Sunday Herald Sun the “engine blew up in flames two hours into the flight”.
“The plane was then turned back and landed safely but multiple fire trucks were lining the runway when we landed,” the passenger said.
"engine blew up in flames two hours into the flight” - Oh P L E A S E... when will the media stop quoting the ravings of idiots who know nothing about what they are talking about... turbulence or some minor engine fault (not saying this was minor but will wait for the F A C T S and not trust the first flush of a media frenzy) is always accompanied by hordes of passengers wailing and carrying on about how "it was sooo scary and we thought we were going to die... etc.".
My guess, happy to be proven wrong, is that this was probably a small failure followed by an engine shutdown and air turnback.
I am so sick of media reports of 'near disasters' that turn out to be routine. Let's see what the experts say.