Qantas plane makes emergency landing due to engine failure soon after takeoff

A Qantas level made an emergency landing Friday owed to what nan hose said was a "contained motor failure" soon aft taking disconnected from Sydney Airport, sparking a grassfire connected a adjacent runway and causing respective flights to beryllium diverted.

The Qantas flight, QF520, was bound for Brisbane and was circling for a "short play of time" earlier landing safely backmost astatine Sydney Airport, Qantas Chief Pilot Captain Richard Tobiano said successful nan statement.

There was nary first connection connected nan number of group connected board.

A motortruck sprays h2o wherever a writer occurrence occurred connected a runway astatine Sydney International Airport connected Nov. 8, 2024 aft a Qantas level made an emergency landing owed what nan bearer said was a "contained motor failure" soon aft taking disconnected from nan airport. DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images

"Qantas engineers person conducted a preliminary inspection of nan motor and confirmed it was a contained motor failure," nan hose said. "While customers would person heard a large bang, location was not an explosion."

The Reuters news agency explains that successful a contained motor failure, nan engine's parts enactment wrong nan protective lodging meant to support them from flying out. If they do, they could origin terrible harm to nan main assemblage of a plane.

Airservices Australia, nan government's aviation regulator, said nan motor nonaccomplishment caused "a writer area adjacent to nan runway to drawback fire" that was swiftly extinguished by firefighters.

Workers cheque nan runway arsenic a Qantas level prepares to return disconnected down them astatine Sydney International Airport connected Nov. 8, 2024. A Qantas level made an emergency landing owed to a "contained motor failure" soon aft taking disconnected from nan airport, nan bearer said successful a statement. DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images

The Airservices' National Operations Management Centre enacted a 47-minute crushed extremity astatine Sydney Airport to guarantee nan level could onshore arsenic quickly arsenic possible, nan regulator said successful a statement, adding that nary 1 was hurt.

Reuters reports that nan airdrome said each its runways had re-opened by Friday day aft nan parallel runway had been closed for inspection because of nan fire.

The craft is simply a 19-year-old Boeing 737-800, Reuters said, citing Flightradar24. That type of twin-engine rider level is designed to beryllium capable to alert utilizing only 1 motor successful an emergency, Reuters noted.

Passenger Georgina Lewis said she heard a "bang."

"One of nan engines appeared to person gone. The aviator came connected 10 minutes later to explicate that they had a problem pinch a right-hand motor connected takeoff," she told section outlet Channel Nine.

Another passenger, Mark Willacy, a journalist pinch Australia's nationalist broadcaster ABC, said nan level struggled to get airborne pursuing nan "loud bang" noise.

"That large bang arsenic nan wheels were leaving nan crushed and nan shudder, that was for illustration thing I person ever felt," he told ABC. "When we landed, location was a batch of applause and cheering amongst nan passengers."

Tobiano said his unit members were "highly trained" to respond to specified emergency situations.

"We understand this would person been a distressing acquisition for customers and we will beryllium contacting each customers this day to supply support," he said successful nan statement. "We will besides beryllium conducting an investigation into what caused nan motor issue."

Customers were being moved to alternate flights, Qantas said.

Eleven home flights were cancelled and 4 diverted to different airports, a Sydney Airport spokesperson said.

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