Qantas have said that tests are still being carried out on its A380 fleet in Sydney and Los Angeles to determine what caused the uncontained explosion on the A380 flight from Singapore on Thursday.
Qantas spokesman, Simon Rushton, has said that the company is still not in a position to say when their A380 fleet would be back in the air, following Thursday's mid-flight failure in the number two engine of QF32, an Airbus A380 superjumbo.
"We're doing tests on the A380s in Sydney and in Los Angeles concurrently. There is one engineer working in Sydney and three in Los Angeles," he said.
Australian investigators are being sent to the United Kingdom to oversee the examination of the part involved in the explosion that ocurred on the A380 flying from Singapore to Sydney last Thursday.
Meanwhile, The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has asked residents of Indonesia's Batam Island to help them find a crucial piece of debris lost from the A380.
The Island was showered with debris and the ATSB is hoping that a particular geared disk may be among it.
On Sunday the ATSB urged any Batam Island residents who might have found parts of the plane to hand them in to local police and have issued a photograph of a disk similar to the one it is seeking.
"The recovery of that disk could be crucial to a full understanding of the nature of the engine failure, and may have implications for the prevention of future similar occurrences," an ATSB statement said.
The Indonesian Transportation Safety Committee has assisted the ATSB with the recovery of a number of items of debris from the A380.
The items arrived in Singapore on Saturday, and a portion of a recovered engine component will be sent to the UK to be examined by the manufacturer and other experts.
Meanwhile, the bulk of the passengers from the QF6 Boeing 747 are expected to arrive in Sydney Airport tonight. They were forced to turn back to Singapore after a second incident involving a Qantas jet.
The Boeing 747 experienced a contained engine failure on Friday just six-minutes after the flight had left Singapore airport.
The flight was forced to turn back and passengers were put up in Singapore. The first 50 passengers from this flight arrived into Sydney Airport on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, Qantas' 90th anniversary celebrations continue in Brisbane where Qantas ambassador, John Travolta, flew in to meet with 4,000 employees of the company and their families and friends.
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