This Tiny Pipe Brought Down This Massive Plane

Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators wanted to know why the A380's Rolls Royce engine on Qantas Flight 32 had failed so dramatically. The answer was both simple and terrifying.

From: AIR DISASTERS: Titanic of the Sky

[anonymousequanimous]

Title: “This tiny pipe brought down this massive plane”

Guy in video: “this *NEARLY* brought down an a380”

[bondrewdthelordofdawn]

0:25 When you realize there is school tomorrow

[fatfox]

The title made it seem like the a380 crashed.



Btw I'm Aussie but I've never been on qantas

[thewhexperience]

Amazing how he found the broken pipe so quickly!

[JayJayAviation]

It did not bring the plane down in the way the title is implying

[dancingcarapace]

Fun fact, whilst Qantas Airlines has had some serious incidents, they’ve never had a single fatality, even with an engine failure like what we see here with flight 32.

[sammoore]

Me: I wanna become a pilot
Youtube recommend: i'm about to end this whole mans career

[blazerocker]

If this is the incident I'm thinking of: the adjacent engine to the one with the fire was unable to be shut down due to the damage and fuel was spilling onto the runway after the plane had come to a complete stop. It took some time to get the situation under control so the passengers could safely deboard.

[SKF]

Don't get your stub pipes from China.

[microdesigns]

"Kave! I think we've gaught it!"

[-SHADOW-x-GAMING-]

"In the start of every Air crash Investigation"

Investigators: 'I have never seen anything like this

[vincentconti]

Wow! This is rocket science! I used to have trouble installing a new clutch when it was actually possible to do it in my driveway!

[jamesweber]

The first time a Smithsonian video doesn't end with a plane crashing

[lucah]

Did Rolls-Royce not have quality control? Like they're one of the most prestigious and best transport manufacturing companies in the world. I'm baffled as to how faulty oil pipes got passed them like that.

[joevignoloru]

My understanding of the failure is that when the pipe broke it deprived the main bearing between the compressor and the turbine of oil. The lack of lubrication then caused the bearing to fail, which in turn severed the interconnecting shaft. When the shaft severed it decoupled the turbine from the compressor. Once the turbine was relieved of the mechanical load imposed on it by the compressor it cause the turbine to spin way up and immediately go into overspeed. Ultimately it was the excess rotational speed that caused the turbine to come apart. The fire was actually just a secondary effect of the broken pipe and it didn't directly cause the engine to explode.

[jsythereeighty-niner]

2:44 What? He is totally spelling 'uncontained' properly.

[joydeepsharma]

So, the pinnacle of perfection makes uneven tubes now 🙃

[wraith]

Makes sense, engine oil isn’t exactly highly flammable but it is combustible which means if it comes into contact with heat and air, it can ignite, that’s what happened the stub pipe had high pressure on one side and low on the other, the pipe couldn’t withstand the pressure and broke causing oil leakage into the combustion chamber, that’s where the jet pipe is, where exhaust gases drive the turbine, oil was ignited in there sparking fire onto the turbine disc which probably spun out of control and exploded.

[ananmaydrummrrandmtbrider]

Such tiny and tiny pipe bought an a380 oh my god

[richardanselmo]

Dont do that youtube. Pls stop with the ads