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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2010 file photo, firefighters surround a Qantas jetliner which made an emergency landing at Singapore's Changi International Airport after an engine bigger than an sports utility vehicle disintegrated, blasting shrapnel holes in the superjumbo jet's wing. Two weeks after the pilots somehow landed their Qantas jetliner and its 450 passengers, their two-hour cockpit drama was described Thursday Nov. 18, 2010 in an interview with The Associated Press by the vice president of the Australian and International Pilots Association.
FILE – In this Nov. 4, 2010 file photo, firefighters surround a Qantas jetliner which made an emergency landing at Singapore’s Changi International Airport after an engine bigger than an sports utility vehicle disintegrated, blasting shrapnel holes in the superjumbo jet’s wing. Two weeks after the pilots somehow landed their Qantas jetliner and its 450 passengers, their two-hour cockpit drama was described Thursday Nov. 18, 2010 in an interview with The Associated Press by the vice president of the Australian and International Pilots Association.
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SYDNEY — Qantas says its grounded superjumbo fleet is ready to fly. Chief executive Alan Joyce said the decision on the six Airbus A380s followed the completion of engine safety checks since a massive failure over Indonesia this month.

Joyce said Qantas was “completely comfortable now with the operation of the aircraft” and Rolls-Royce engines. An investigation is still underway into the cause of the Nov. 4. disintegration of the engine as the plane took off from Singapore. Officials have indicated a fire caused by leaking oil was the likely cause. The Associated Press

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