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Old 5th Oct 2017, 15:54
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Bergerie1
 
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No reason to ground the A380, it's not the aircraft it's the engine - and - different engine, different problem. The QANTAS incident was with a Rolls Royce engine, this one is a GP7200. The RR failure was a turbine disk, this one looks like an LP shaft failure.

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