Rolls May Have Known Of Trent Failure Risk

By Max Kingsley-Jones

As the Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation progresses into the Nov. 4 inflight uncontained failure of a Trent 900 on a Qantas Airbus A380, it has emerged that Rolls-Royce may have known about deficiencies well before the incident.

Rolls, which has said very little publicly, revealed a week after the incident that a component failure in the engine ...

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