New mid-air engine drama for Qantas

QANTAS and Rolls-Royce are again at odds on another engine failure on one of the carrier's biggest planes. The shutdown, overflying Turkmenistan, followed a series of unsuccessful bids by the flight crew to keep the engine operating.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, investigating, said the decision to cut thrust was amid crew concerns on oil quality.

The same problem had another Qantas A380 limp into London on three engines two weeks earlier. Singapore Airlines, which also flies Rolls-Royce-powered A380s, has had this problem.

A Qantas spokesman said that an engineering inspection on both planes after they arrived in London had found an external line feeding oil to the engine was fitted incorrectly.

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