A Qantas Airlines Airbus A380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after losing an engine that shredded its shroud and scattered debris onto an Indonesian island.
The Rolls Royce group is investigating the incident as well as another involving a Rolls engine on a Qantas Boeing 747 bound for Sydney from San Francisco, CA.
The A380 is the largest commercial passenger jet and is capable of carrying from 450 to 840 passengers and is in direct competition with the Boeing 747 even though the Boeing can only carry 524 passengers, max.
Qantas has grounded their fleet of similarly equipped planes until the issue is "resolved".
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