Report Due On Qantas A380 Incident

By Jens Flottau, Robert Wall, Adrian Schofield
Frankfurt, London, Auckland

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) this week will issue a preliminary report that is likely to confirm investigators’ suspicions that oil pipe leaks led to the uncontained failure of a Trent 900 engine during a Qantas Airbus A380 flight Nov. 4.

Meanwhile, the carrier plans to resume limited operations of some A380s, although the investigation will remain open ...

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