Explosion
Explode
The editors at Merriam-Webster would seem to disagree with you.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.” Captain Eric Moody
How so?
It was not a rapid chemical or nuclear reaction with the production of noise and it was not something bursting violently as a result of pressure within.
Because passengers don’t like to board potential flaming balls of death and they rarely keep a scorecard of which engine is on the airplane. This follows on the heals of a Trent 1000 engine failure. It’s not certain that the 380 will ever be a money-maker so this could not come at a worse time.
Criminy! **
Explode:
4: to suggest an explosion (as in appearance or effect) <shrubs exploded with blossoms> **
You did see this one, didn’t you?:dubious:
Well that’s a metaphorical use. I think Qantas is reasonable in rejecting that use of the word.
What airline?
BIG NOISE!
“We’re all gonna die!”
I must disagree.
Well sure, Qantas isn’t going to use the word “explosion”. When you’re a passenger who hears a loud bang and shrapnel drills through the top of the wing it’s a different perspective.
I’ve heard experts rule out a bird strike, saying this sort of occurrence would be impossible, but the technical reasons are not clear to me. But they’re also saying this proves what Airbus has said all along, that it can fly okay with the loss of one or even two engines.
Rolls-Royce, the maker of the engines, is on it now, and the Qantas CEO just announced on BBC that they hope to have all of their A380s back in the air within 48 hours.
Emirates, the national airline of Dubai, flies the superjumbo through Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, the only airline to do so. They use it on the Dubai-Bangkok and Bangkok-Hong Kong routes. There are two shower rooms in first class on those babies, and 14 massage tables. How’d you like to crash and burn while in the shower? Even in economy class, there are 1200 entertainment channels to choose from.
Including the one that needs to have its wing patched up?
1,200? By the time I know what’s on, the flight’s over.
Well, you know how the Aussies pride themselves on their resourcefulness. They’ll probably patch it up with some gumption and take 'er back up. 
Quite understandable. It is a nitpick but “Explosion” carries connotations that Qantas would no doubt like to avoid and I have no problem with them picking that nit, it’s the sort of distinction people make on these boards all the time. An uncontained engine failure is bad enough without bandying “explosion” around the place.
Was there any question about this? Airliners aren’t certified if they can’t cope with failures
Just from posters above speculating about a bird strike. I heard experts ruling out such without hearing anyone in the media speculating about it. I guess it’s just one of those things everyone thinks of, so best to get it out of the way.
Sorry, I meant the bit about it proving the A380 can fly with an engine or two out.
Ah, that I don’t know. But the experts were going on about that this morning. I guess since the thing is so damned big and can carry so many, they want to reassure people.
Kuwait Airways to Dhaka. Slogan “Earning your trust”. :eek:
this is one of the things I hate about the way this presented in the Media. The Airbus plane didn’t malfunction (as far as we know) it was the engine - made by a different company, Rolls Royce - that blew up. Yet all the news messages talk abourt an Airbus 380 ‘malfunctioning’. Magiver is right people react to these kind of meassages, but implicitly you also say that this kind of reaction is BS and that people should look at engiones if they are afraid of being on a ‘flaming ball of death’; this is what I’m saying anyway.
I’m not sure how Airbus is organized, but if Airbus chose the Roll Royce engines, they are responsible to make sure it is a worthy engine and they should oversee all the engineering, manufacturing, modifications, etc. So unless Rolls Royce hid information from Airbus or something like that, I’d say Airbus shares some responsibility.