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| Above, a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 at LAX. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
An engine on an Air France Airbus A380 jetliner bound for Los Angeles exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, prompting an emergency landing in Canada. There were over 500 passengers on board.
According to Condé Nast Traveler:
Terror struck an Air France flight headed from Paris to Los Angeles yesterday when one of the plane engines fell into the Atlantic ocean during its mid-flight cruise phase.
According to reports from CNN and The Telegraph, the Airbus A380 plane was just west of Greenland when passengers heard a loud boom and felt a quick drop in altitude, along with a huge vibration. “It definitely was not turbulence so we knew something was wrong," reports one passenger
The plane shook for another five minutes before the captain stabilized it and made an announcement explaining that one of the four engines had exploded. The flight crew shut down the damaged engine and the plane flew for another hour on three engines until it could make an emergency landing at Goose Bay Airport in Labrador in eastern Canada.
The double-decker Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world. I've flown on two of them during my 2015 trip to Japan.
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