Qantas Plane Emergency

• Mariners plane forced to land due to emergency in Australia

  A Qantas Airbus A330 jet with players from A-League side the Central Coast Mariners among its 253 passengers made an emergency landing at Adelaide airport on Friday after a warning light indicated smoke in the cargo area.

• Oz plane forced to divert after burning through fuel

  A Melbourne-bound Qantas plane carrying 249 passengers was forced to divert to Adelaide after crew discovered it did not have enough fuel.A spokesman of the Australian national airliner Qantas said the A380 from Singapore made the unexpected pit stop around 5 am (local time), media reports said.He said the low fuel supply was not the result of a le...

• Human ingenuity saved the day for plane in crisis

  One moment, the super-sized airliner was climbing thousands of feet over Indonesia. The next, the engine exploded, shooting flames and shrapnel through one wing. Computer warnings of impending systems failures throughout the aircraft started flashing on cockpit screens.That was the position five pilots found themselves in two weeks ago when their Q...

• Three airlines halt A380 flights over engine explosion

  Three airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbo jetliners on Thursday after an engine on a Qantas plane blew apart shortly after takeoff from Singapore.Debris fell on an Indonesian island, and the plane, with more than 450 people aboard, spent 90 tense minutes circling with its three remaining engines, dumping fuel and preparing for an e...

• Sydney: Plane makes emergency landing, passengers safe

  A Qantas jet with nearly 200 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing after its landing gear failed to retract following takeoff.