Plane engine failed because of oil fire

Rolls Royce should really be sorry for the recent incident that occurred with the Quantas airlines A380 planes. After all its the latest edition in the aviation history and one cannot tolerate such things to happen with expensive machines like this. Moreover hundreds of  lives are in question, so it should be looked at more seriously.

 Rolls-Royce said Friday that the failure of a specific component of its Trent 900 engine caused an oil fire that then forced a Qantas A380 to make an emergency landing.

"The failure was confined to a specific component in the turbine area of the engine," the engine maker said. "This caused an oil fire, which led to the release of the intermediate pressure turbine disc. "

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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/australia.qantas.rolls.royce/index.html