Qantas: Cracks found in A380 wings pose no safety threat

Qantas’s first Airbus A380, christened the Nancy-Bird Walton (shown here), suffered an uncontained engine failure after taking off from Singapore Nov. 4, 2010. By Geoffrey Thomas Airbus engineers carrying out repairs on the Qantas (QF) A380 that suffered an uncontained engine explosion in late 2010...

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