Qantas A380 turned back after door damage from catering truck

Credit: Airbus
Passenger-door seal damage caused by a catering truck caused unnerving onboard noise that led the pilots of a Qantas Airbus A380 to return to Sydney two hours into a scheduled flight to the US, an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report found. The A380 conducted a routine departure from...

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