An Airbus A380 flew for nearly 300 hours with a 4-foot-long tool left inside one of its engines
An engineer had left the tool in the engine, thinking someone else would need to use it again later on, a safety report said.
ATSB: Qantas Airbus A380 Flew Several Flights With A Tool Left In The Engine At LAX
The Qantas Airbus A380 operated 34 cycles and flew for more than 290 hours before the missing tool was removed from the ...
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Qantas A380 operated 34 cycles with lost tool in engine
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has underlined the risk of foreign object debris after a Qantas Airways A380 ...
Qantas Airbus A380 flew for 294 hours with tool left inside engine
An investigation by Australia revealed that the device had been inside one of the plane’s four engines since last December.
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Qantas A380 flew dozens of flights with tool lodged in engine
A Qantas Airbus A380 completed nearly 300 flight hours with a technician’s tool lodged in an engine, an Australian Transport ...
Qantas A380 flew 34 times with tool left in engine
The tool, used to turn an engine compressor on VH-OQI during borescope inspections, is believed to have been left inside ...
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Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with meter-long tool left inside engine
An Airbus A380 operated by Australian airline Qantas clocked over 290 hours of flight time despite a tool having been left ...
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Qantas A380 completed 34 trips despite 'significant threat' from unexpected item later found in plane's engine
According to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), maintenance engineers did not commence the "lost tool procedure" ...