Airbus engineers carrying out repairs on the Qantas (QF) A380 that suffered an uncon-tained engine explosion in late 2010 after take-off from Singapore have found a small number of 3 mm.-long cracks in the aircraft's wing rib feet. A QF spokesman told ATW that "minuscule cracking was found in the wing ribs of the QF A380 being repaired in Singapore but investigations have found that the cracking is unrelated to the engine failure incident experienced by this aircraft in November 2010 and is not unique to QF. It has now been repaired."
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