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TERRIFYING - Airbus A380 engine explodes after Takeoff! Qantas 32
🕑 Added 2022-08-31 18:52:01 +0000 UTCOn the morning of November 4th, 2010, 440 passengers and 29 crew boarded Qantas flight 32, at Singapore’s Changi airport. The aircraft they were flying on, a state-of-the-art Airbus A380, would go on to suffer a catastrophic uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff. Almost 500 lives hung in the balance as the five pilots in the cockpit did everything they could to save the crippled aircraft. This incident is the most serious to happen to an A380 to date, and the crew’s handling of it has been highlighted by aviation experts as being one of the finest examples of airmanship in the history of aviation.
This short documentary uses publicly available information to examine this incident, and the reasons for its occurrence.
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Pictures from final report:
Interview with Check captain:
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/exclusive-qantas-qf32-flight-from-the-cockpit/
All music licensed through Epidemic Sound
