Passengers 'jolted' after Qantas plane suffers engine failure
An engine failure forced pilots on a Quantas flight to make an emergency landing shortly after it took from an airport in Sydney, Australia.
An engine failure forced pilots on a Quantas flight to make an emergency landing shortly after it took from an airport in Sydney, Australia.
Passengers heard a loud bang shortly after flight 520 from Sydney to Brisbane left the runway on Friday afternoon, the airline said in a statement, adding that it was not an explosion.
Engineers concluded after a preliminary inspection and confirmed the Boeing 737 jet suffered a contained engine failure, the statement added.
“A really jolting shudder went through the plane,” passenger Mark Willacy, a journalist with the Australian broadcaster ABC News, told his network, adding that he heard the loud bang just after the jet pulled up from Sydney Airport.
“We knew immediately something was wrong,” he added. “That big bang as the wheels were leaving the ground and the shudder — that was like nothing I’ve ever felt.”
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