a visual inspection of the stricken near-new Qantas A380 after the number 2 engine exploded

These images of the A380 explosion on QF32 were released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. This picture shows damage to the inner fuel tank of the left wing. A total of 44 pictures here

A walk through the empty A380 following its (expensive) repairs and a chat with the captain as he points out the "exit wounds" on the plane from the day the engine failed on 4 November 2010: -



Dave Evans is not just any A380 captain - he’s the Check and Training Captain of the A380 Airbus, and he just happened to be working on the Qantas flagship plane Nancy Bird Walton in 2010 when the number two engine failed, sending debris at high velocity into random parts of the jet.

“It takes on its own life when these things happen,” Capt Evans said.

“Everything just went into slow motion. Some things I couldn’t recall doing; you just go into your responses - looking back at the flight information what we did all worked out well.”

Easy to say - but the end result is the plane landed safely, with a reasonably calm cabin.

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