大意是新航要將三架目前在外站的 A380 空機飛回新加坡換發動機。
有傳言新航組員在倫敦拒絕操作 A380 但新航官方否認這個傳聞。
另外提到 QF32 的事件對機體本身造成影響比原先想像嚴重，
從發動機飛出的碎片擊穿左翼，造成一號發動機無法關機以及漏油；
還破換液壓系統，使 spoiler 無法作動。
RR 否認 Trent 900 的問題與 787 稍早發生的 Trent 1000 問題有關。
# Oil found on three Singapore A380s
# Crew refuse to fly from Heathrow Airport
# Engine makers working on recommendations
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CONCERNS over the future of Rolls-Royce powered A380s have taken a
new turn after three of Singapore Airlines big jets were grounded.
A spokeswoman for the airline has confirmed that the jets, currently
grounded in Melbourne, Sydney and London, will be flown back to Singapore
without passengers.
Up to 24 technical and cabin personnel will be onboard the jets,
which will fly for at least five hours and up to 11 hours each to
reach Singapore where they will undergo engine changes.
"It's not that it's not safe, it's that we are taking precautionary
measures by changing three engines on these planes," the spokeswoman said.
Rolls Royce advised the airline to take action after tests showed
signs of oil stains on the engines, she said.
Earlier today crew in Heathrow refused to fly an A380 jet bound for
Singapore after oil was allegedly found in one of the turbines,
Heraldsun.com.au reports, a claim Singapore airlines says is
"absolutely incorrect".
The forced grounding came about at about the same time as another
A380 owned by the same airline left Sydney for Singapore.
First reports suggest that passengers who were due to depart from
London were told that engine-maker Rolls-Royce had placed an embargo
on its now-suspect Trent 900 engine which was designed for the A380,
the world's biggest airliner.
Rolls Royce spokesman Roger Hunt said checks are being carried out on
affected A380 planes but could not confirm if an embargo was in place.
"This is a process of ongoing checks. Safety is our highest priority,"
Mr Hunt said.
"We completed engine inspections on all 11 of our A380 aircraft and
did not find anything of concern," the airline's spokesman Nicholas
Ionides said in a statement.
"Any further checks that may be recommended by the manufacturers
will of course be done, and in the meantime we continue with our
regular routine checks."
The airline has warned that passengers due to leave Sydney for
Singapore this afternoon may face disruptions as the airline seeks
to accommodate them on other flights.
Passengers flying from Melbourne to Singapore were delayed for
a few hours this morning before being accommodated on an alternative
aircraft.
The grounding comes after Qantas said last night it had cleared the
backlog caused by the grounding of its A380 fleet.
New reports have emerged that allege the spectacular engine failure
near Singapore last week caused more damage to the plane involved
than first thought.
The No 2 engine's violent disintegration ripped a hole through the
Airbus A380's left wing, destroying wiring that prevented the pilots
from turning off the No 1 engine and causing a fuel leak.
Suggestions have now emerged that there was also significant damage
to hydraulic systems that prevented spoilers, panels on the wing that
create drag to slow the plane down, from deploying.
The suggestions came as the Australian Transport Safety Bureau yesterday
interviewed the flight crew of the stricken A380 and performed the
first boroscope inspection of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine.
Investigators are continuing their search for the rest of a turbine
disc that broke up in the incident and have set up a schedule for
examining a recovered piece that has been sent to Britain for
forensic tests.
Inspections of the grounded planes continued yesterday amid suggestions
European regulators were poised to issue an airworthiness directive
on the checks.
Qantas is using its Boeing 747s and Airbus A330s to plug the gap
caused by the A380 groundings and says it will be able to keep
operations going and meet network requirements while the A380
issue is resolved.
Mr Joyce said Rolls-Royce had a good understanding of the problem,
which was likely to result in a series of recommendations.
The engine-maker broke its silence to say it had made progress
in understanding the cause of the engine failure on QF32 but did not
provide details.
Rolls-Royce rejected speculation there was a link between the
Trent 900 failure and the uncontained failure of a Boeing 787
Trent 1000 engine operating "outside of normal parameters"
on a test bed in Britain.
Singapore Airlines, Qantas and Lufthansa operate A380 jets
powered by different versions of the Trent 900 engine series.
The model fitted to the six Qantas planes is more powerful than
that used by Singapore and Lufthansa, producing 72,000 pounds of thrust.
- with Steve Creedy and Kate Schneider
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