Mid-Air Explosion on Qantas Flight 32: How One Crew Saved 469 Lives from Catastrophe
When Qantas Flight 32 took off from Singapore’s Changi Airport on November 4, 2010, no one could have predicted the terrifying ordeal that was about to unfold. Within minutes of being airborne, passengers heard a deafening explosion—something was terribly wrong. What happened next became one of the most remarkable survival stories in aviation history.
Everything started normally for the 469 passengers and crew onboard the A380, the world’s largest passenger plane. The flight was scheduled to take them from Singapore to Sydney. However, just as the plane reached cruising altitude, disaster struck. An uncontained explosion ripped through one of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, sending shrapnel flying through the wing and damaging vital systems.
The pilots were immediately bombarded with more than 80 system failure warnings, ranging from fuel leaks to loss of hydraulic power.
It was a nightmare scenario that no one on the plane—or on the ground—could have anticipated.
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