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Well following the Qantas failure it appears that the Roll Royce engine designed for the A380 has major issues.

This has ramifications for it's use in the 787, given it's ease in swapping power plants.

Obviously things are unknown at the moment, but their is major concerns with the whole A380 fleet.

Also despite publicly saying the issue was minor, the Qantas crew had major issues and lost roll control briefly [help]

This was not just an ordinary engine detonation.

Here is the list of supposed issue's from insider's knowledge (not sure how true it is).

* massive fuel leak in the left mid fuel tank (the beast has 11 tanks,
including in the horizontal stabiliser on the tail)
* massive fuel leak in the left inner fuel tank
* a hole on the flap canoe/fairing that you could fit your upper body
through
* the aft gallery in the fuel system failed, preventing many fuel transfer
functions
* fuel jettison had problems due to the previous problem above
* bloody great hole in the upper wing surface
* partial failure of leading edge slats
* partial failure of speed brakes/ground spoilers
* shrapnel damage to the flaps
* TOTAL loss of all hydraulic fluid in the Green System (beast has 2 x
5,000 PSI systems, Green and Yellow)
* manual extension of landing gear
* loss of 1 generator and associated systems
* loss of brake anti-skid system
* unable to shutdown adjacent #1 engine using normal method after landing
due to major damage to systems
* unable to shutdown adjacent #1 engine using using the fire switch!!!!!!!!
Therefore, no fire protection was available for that engine after the
explosion in #2
* ECAM warnings about major fuel imbalance because of fuel leaks on left
side, that were UNABLE to be fixed with cross-feeding
* fuel trapped in Trim Tank (in the tail). Therefore, possible major CofG
out-of-balance condition for landing. Yikes!
* and much more to come.......... So Rolls Royce need to figure out how the explosion was not contained and almost downed an A380!