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Qantas Airbus A380 Superjumbo In Mid-air Alert: QF31 Lands In Dubai As Stephen Fry Tweets | World News | Sky News

A UK-bound Qantas superjumbo was forced to make an unscheduled landing after suffering midair engine problems - exactly one year after another's engine disintegrated.

More than 250 passengers were on board the Airbus A380 flying from Sydney to London.
Oil problems caused the crew to shut down one of the jet's four engines four hours after a refuelling stop at Singapore.

[TimberWolf]

Why only (more than) 250 passengers on board?

[ThomasSoerensen]

surely this is the concept of "planned obsolescence".

RR want to be able to sell new engines every year.

[Churchill]

On November 2, officials said police were investigating the suspected sabotage of the entertainment system on another Qantas plane after engineers noticed several wires were cut on the plane's in-flight entertainment system during the labour dispute.

I wonder if the two are connected...

[sasguru]

It's a golden opportunity for the German jet engine manufacturers to take over.
Oh wait .....

[ThomasSoerensen]

I wonder if the two are connected...

it clearly states the wires were cut

[Arturo Bassick]

It's a golden opportunity for the German jet engine manufacturers to take over.
Oh wait .....

You mean like these?

MTU Aero Engines, Munich - MTU Aero Engines

[TheFaQQer]

Why only (more than) 250 passengers on board?

People found out that Stephen Fry was on board, so didn't turn up. Much safer than risking him drivelling about how great Apple are for 14 hours in your ear.

(There were 258 passengers, 21 cabin crew, 4 pilots. And not enough engines)

[sasguru]

You mean like these?

MTU Aero Engines, Munich - MTU Aero Engines

Quite. What's wrong with them?
Lazy Germans.

[doodab]

I wonder if the two are connected...

Engine failures might make things more interesting but I'm not sure they qualify as in flight entertainment unless you are playing FSX.