BRITISH reports warn the engine debacle that almost took down a Qantas super-jumbo could cost Rolls-Royce as much as $500 million. Australian analysts have calculated that the cost to Qantas alone tops $200m for the engine failure last month.
The airline has positioned itself to take legal action in Australia against Rolls after having had to reduce flights to Los Angeles for safety reasons.
The development came as Qantas denied claims it had found a new oil leak on its A380 engines, saying reports of a second set of faults appeared to relate to a problem identified early in the investigation into last month's engine explosion near Singapore.
Describing the reports as "confused", a spokeswoman pointed to a leak, found shortly after the explosion, on a number of Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines that is different from mis-bored oil tubes found in the destroyed engine and subsequently discovered in three others.
The manufacturing flaw is believed to have been responsible for an oil fire that led to the failure of the intermediate pressure turbine disc, the destruction of the engine and substantial damage to the aircraft.
Flawed tubes were found on a Qantas engine on the A380 production line and are believed to have been found on a Lufthansa and a Singapore Airlines engine.
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