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Aircraft Profile: Airbus A380

The Airbus A380 is the largest jet airliner ever built and is the world's first full double-deck passenger aircraft. First flight took place from Toulouse, France on 27 April 2005 and led to a flight test programme involving five Airbus A380s.

Singapore Airlines - A380

First to fly the Aibus A380 - The most comfortable, spacious and quiet aircraft to ever take to the skies, the Singapore Airlines A380 brings you travel in a new light.

Aircraft Photos | Airliners.net - Airbus A-380

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AP News - AP Interview: EADS sees challenge to sell US A380

AP Interview: EADS sees challenge to sell US A380

AP News - Qantas jumbo makes emergency landing in Singapore

Qantas jumbo makes emergency landing in Singapore

BBC News - Qantas grounds A380s after Singapore emergency landing

Australia's Qantas grounds its Airbus A380 jets, and Singapore Airlines delays flights, after a Qantas superjumbo makes an emergency landing.

AP News - Passengers heard bangs, saw smoke on Qantas flight

Passengers heard bangs, saw smoke on Qantas flight

AP News - Qantas CEO: 'faulty design' may be behind blowout

Qantas CEO: 'faulty design' may be behind blowout

BBC News - Design fault /may have caused A380 scare' - Qantas

The failure that caused the emergency landing of a Qantas Airbus A380 in Singapore may have been caused by a design fault, the airline's head says.

AP News - Regulator: Oil fire may have caused A380 problem

Regulator: Oil fire may have caused A380 problem

AP News - Before disintegration, 4 signs of jet-engine flaws

LONDON (AP) - Rolls-Royce engines on the world's largest airliner malfunctioned four times before one of them disintegrated during flight last week, and aviation experts said Thursday that the earlier mishaps may hold clues to design or construction flaws.

AP News - Airbus says bearing box failed in Rolls engine

LONDON (AP) - An Airbus executive said Friday that Rolls-Royce has identified a faulty bearing box as the cause of the oil leak problem implicated in the midair disintegration of an engine on one of the world's largest airliners, an Australian newspaper reported.

BBC News - Rolls-Royce says one part caused Qantas A380 blow-out

Rolls-Royce says the problem that led to the mid-air explosion of an A380 engine was the result of a single faulty component.

AP News - Air agency issued engine warning then eased checks

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Three months before a superjumbo jet engine blew apart and forced an emergency landing, European safety regulators had relaxed their inspection order for the same section of the engine implicated in the dangerous mishap.

AP News - Official to AP: Rolls-Royce replacing A380 engines

LONDON (AP) - Rolls-Royce will temporarily replace entire engines suffering from oil leaks on the world's largest jetliner, an aviation regulator told The Associated Press on Monday.

AP News - Rolls-Royce to replace leaking engines on A380s

LONDON (AP) - Rolls-Royce will temporarily replace any oil-leaking engines like the one that caught fire and blew apart on a Qantas superjumbo jet earlier this month, an aviation official said Monday.

BBC News - Rolls Royce 'may replace up to 40 Airbus A380 engines'

Up to 40 Rolls-Royce engines on Airbus A380 superjumbos worldwide will need to be replaced, Australian airline Qantas says.

AP News - Qantas: 40 engines on A380s need to be replaced

SYDNEY (AP) - As many as half of the 80 Rolls-Royce engines that power the world's largest jetliner may have faulty parts at risk of oil leaks like the one that caused the fire and partial disintegration of a motor on a Qantas flight this month, the Australian national airline's chief executive said Thursday.

AP News - Cascading failures followed airline engine blowout

WASHINGTON (AP) - The pilots of a super-sized Qantas Airlines jet grappled with an extraordinary, cascading series of critical system failures after an engine disintegrated earlier this month, pilots and aviation safety experts familiar with details of the event say.

My Way News - Drama in the cockpit: Qantas crew faced 54 alarms

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nobody trains for chaos like this. Out the pilots' left window, far above the ocean, an engine as big as a bus had disintegrated, blasting shrapnel holes in the superjumbo's wing. And now an overwhelming flood of computer alarms was warning the pilots that critical systems might be failing.

BBC News - Qantas begins legal action against Rolls-Royce

Qantas begins legal action against the engine supplier Rolls-Royce following the explosion of an engine on one of the airline's Airbus A380s.

AP News - Manufacturing flaw possible in superjumbo engine

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian investigators on Thursday identified the source of an oil leak that caused a superjumbo engine to blow apart in mid air last month, and said a suspected manufacturing defect in the Rolls-Royce engine was to blame.

BBC News - Qantas Airbus A380 saved by 'quick' crew, says ATSB

The Qantas Airbus A380 that had an engine blow-out would not have arrived safely without the quick thinking of crew, a report says.

Airbus jet clips tail of another plane on JFK runway - BlogPost - The Washington Post

A wing of an Airbus A380, the world's biggest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart.

BBC News - Air France jet clips small plane at New York airport

An Air France jumbo jet clips the tail of a small commuter plane at a New York airport, causing it to spin violently but resulting in no injuries.

Comparing airlines' Airbus A380s - Latimes.com

Six commercial carriers fly the A380. Here's a look at how each has used the space aboard the super jumbo jet.

Airbus A380: World's biggest planes are not sky-worthy, say engineers | Mail Online

Singapore Airlines and Qantas have admitted to 'cracks' in the wings of their Airbus A380 super-jumbos - but say that the planes are safe. Australian engineers say they are 'gambling with lives'.