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When one of the engines on a Qantas A380 blew up soon after takeoff, one of the passengers said "my whole body went to jelly." The super-jumbo did manage to land safely in Singapore, but Qantas and Singapore Airlines moved to suspend all flights of the A380 until the airlines can figure out what happened. Five carriers have the plane: Qantas, Singapore and Lufthansa, Air France and Emirates, though the last two use a different engine than the one involved in today's incident. Qantas has been flying the A380 out of LAX. Above is the video of a Qantas passenger; below is how the plane looked after landing (via AP) Here's a NYT story.
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.