Hitting turbulence

An engine failure on a Qantas Airbus A380, possibly caused by an oil leak, sent debris hurtling to the ground and forced an emergency landing. After the airline grounded its fleet of six A380s, Rolls-Royce said that the cause of the incident was specific to its Trent 900 engine, which it built for the superjumbo, and was the “first of its kind to occur on a large civil Rolls-Royce engine since 1994”. Singapore Airlines took the precaution of replacing the same engine on three of its A380s.
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