This Friday, a plane from the Australian company Qantas which was to connect Sydney to Brisbane was forced to make an emergency landing due to a “engine failure contained” indicates the Belga press agency. This Boeing 737 had just taken off from Sydney when it had to turn back after a noise similar to an explosion was heard.
Several people who were on board the plane claimed to have heard “a big boom » : “One of the engines seemed to have failed. The pilot spoke 10 minutes later to explain that there had been a problem with the right engine on takeoff.explained a passenger to the local television channel, Channel Nine.
The company's chief pilot assured that “although customers heard a loud bang, there was no explosion.” On the other hand, “a contained engine failure” was indeed spotted during the preliminary inspection of the engine by the company's engineers.
What forced the pilot of the plane in question to spin in the air “for a short time” before making an emergency landing which also started a fire, which was quickly extinguished, on the grassy area next to the runway. An investigation will now be carried out to determine what caused this engine failure.
