Qantas files for compensation from RR

This was in yesterday and today’s FT

This was in yesterday and today’s FT
Rolls-Royce scrambles to pin down problem
The UK aerospace company has maintained a tight information clamp-down on the investigation into the Trent 900 engine mishap as it tries to rectify the faults of the incident
http://link.ft.com/r/ZE9K33/0GSMFQ/WGH4Z/5C32RG/HDHONH/UP/h?a1=2010&a2=12&a3=22

More from Rolls Royce in today’s FT

More from Rolls Royce in today’s FT
Rolls costs over engine fire put at $500m
Aviation experts estimate the UK aircraft engine maker could face costs of $500m to deal with the consequences of a recent explosion in one of its Trent 900 engines
http://link.ft.com/r/UXDMSS/NSZ0JW/O3FC8/C5H34J/NSOZ9O/AZ/h?a1=2010&a2=12&a3=10

Interestingly the FT journalists obviously like the dramatic word ‘explosion’ and continue to use it.

More in today’s FT

More in today’s FT

Publicity aversion guides events
Sir John Rose, Rolls-Royce CEO, has stamped his personality on the way the aerospace group handled sharing of information since the explosion of one of its Trent 900 engines
http://link.ft.com/r/FG6LAA/18S8Z5/UHLM2/BMT5AW/26Y8VU/HK/h?a1=2010&a2=12&a3=3

Rolls-Royce reputation dented by reticence
Many industry observers have been frustrated by the company’s lack of detail about the *explosion* of an engine on an Airbus A320 last month, which forced an emergency landing
http://link.ft.com/r/FG6LAA/18S8Z5/UHLM2/BMT5AW/M96QFX/HK/h?a1=2010&a2=12&a3=3

These pen happy journalists keep using this word “explosion”.

Rolls-Royce braced for flak over Qantas engine failure
The UK engine maker is braced for a fresh round of revelations about the engine failure that forced down a Qantas A380 superjumbo shortly after take-off from Singapore last month
http://link.ft.com/r/FG6LAA/18S8Z5/UHLM2/BMT5AW/PRCJPI/HK/h?a1=2010&a2=12&a3=3

Lindermyer, I think I agree with you. If the article in todays Sydney morning Herald is accurate (blaming a faulty oil pipe rather than a design problem) then yes this could have happend to almost any engine.

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/faulty-oil-pipe-to-blame-for-qantas-incident-says-report-20101203-18itw.html

The engines go through such rigorous and extensive testing for certification processes that rushed into production is not an issue

The fault is more a production error than an engine fault as such,
In theory it could have happened to any engine of any type at any time.

Sadly media hype and exageration of the incident will do more damage than the engine ever could.

Not good for RR. Were they too hasty in putting this engine on the market?