On 4 November, 2010 Qantas flight QF32, an Airbus A380 outbound from Singapore, ran into serious problems when a turbine on its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine suffered an uncontained failure. The crew professionally dealt with the incident inflight and successfully landed the aircraft without serious injury. It is also very interesting from a flight operations/safety aspect demonstrating how standards, procedures and training come together to cope with an extremely rare, but serious emergency like this. You must wonder what the outcome would have been for a lesser airline, without the level of competence that was evident in flightdeck and without the landbound resources at hand.
The Royal Aeronautical Society provides a great story with not only an interview with one of the pilots (not the Captain/pilot in command but the supervising check captain) but shows in-flight pics of the emergency as it happened. Royal Aeronautical Society QF32
Some of you may have seen this. A bit “60 Minutes” but an interesting 15 minutes of a great re-telling of the Airbus 380 incident. Sixty Minutes QF32