Another A380 in flight engine explosion….

I suppose so, but to the regular airline passengers on board, an explosion is an explosion, even if it wasn’t really quite that.

Sounds more like a compressor stall, which when it occurs usually causes flames and a big bang. This is usually caused by bleed valves not opening correctly, meaning too much air goes through the engine, and the engine basically backfires.
Depending on what the ECAM told the crew, they would take appropriate action.

The engine exploding was probably the impression from the cabin, not the actaul reality.Unfortunately, the press like a juicy hezdline, don’t they!!

DXB Driver.

Am I right in saying the A380 engines are some of the most technologically advanced in the sky?
The Trent 800 is a three shaft high bypass engine and as for the GP7000, it has an overall pressure ratio of 44:0.

Engines of all types explode periodically. In May an Air Canada 777 engine exploded and subsequently disintegrated shortly after take-off causing metal to rain down from the sky and smash car windows.
And in 2010 (just 2 days after QF 32) a Qantas 747’s engine exploded after take off from Singapore.

Yes, I was thinking that.
I imagine the engine ‘explosion’ (I don’t think it was quite that) caused a few jitters on board, but it must have been a coincidence re. the earlier Qantas incident given that Emirates runs the EA engines. I can’t think of anything in an aircraft’s design that would make its engines prone to expolsion, necessarily.
It’s interesting that a passenger commented negatively on the performance of the crew. This is only alleged, of course, but the crews I had on Emirates were very poor, generally. From their inability to even enforce basic cabin rules or take meal trays away promptly, I wouldn’t expect much from them in an emergency.

Not Rolls-Royce this time. 😉