A Boeing 737 makes an emergency landing in Sydney after engine failure

A Boeing 737 plane had to make an emergency landing in Sydney due to engine failure. A patch of grass also caught fire, closing one of the airport’s runways. There were no injuries.

Qantas flight QF520 to Brisbane had left Sydney airport shortly before the emergency landing. After four minutes, the plane with about 170 passengers on board suddenly changed direction and stopped taking off. After being around for a while, he returned to Sydney.

A reporter from the Australian news channel ABC was on board the plane. He told the channel that when the plane took off, a “loud bang” was heard and “There was a shock through the plane.”

“We knew straight away that something was wrong, but what was even worse, I think, was that the plane was very difficult afterwards,” he said. “It was a real problem to be was taking off and it was clear to the crew and passengers that something was wrong at that moment.

After about fifteen minutes, the pilots informed the passengers that something had happened to the engine on the right side, but that it had been turned off and everything was under control. There was also a grass fire which emitted a lot of smoke. As a result, some flights had to be diverted and landed at Newcastle Airport.

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Qantas said in a statement that a preliminary inspection of the engine revealed a “crack within the engine housing”. “Although passengers may have heard a loud bang, there was no explosion,” reported the airline.

The emergency landing and fire came shortly after a customs glitch at international airports across Australia was resolved. The Australian Border Patrol is investigating the cause of the technical malfunction.

The plane that went into trouble was a 737-838, as seen on flight tracking sites such as Flightradar24. Earlier this year there were also incidents involving 737-800 aircraft. A plane of that type was lost in March panel and in April, a 737-800 was forced to ground a flight after one of its engines suffered lost. The engine of the Qantas plane was not made by Boeing itself.

The aircraft manufacturer also has to deal with many problems with the 737 Max 9 aircraft. For example, at the beginning of this year this type of aircraft had to make an emergency landing after part of its fuselage to lose

Boeing has been criticized a lot, also because of other incidents related to the aircraft manufacturer’s aircraft. As a result of two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max aircraft in Indonesia and Ethiopia, Boeing reached a settlement, leaving the company in deep trouble. red numbers finish.