On the morning of November 4th, 2010, 440 passengers and 29 crew boarded Qantas flight 32, at Singapore’s Changi airport. The aircraft they were flying on, a state-of-the-art Airbus A380, would go on ...

Qantas Airways will resume flying some Airbus A380 superjumbos this week, giving Rolls-Royce a boost after the mid-flight failure of one of its engines forced an emergency landing this month.

If the airline's six A380 planes were grounded beyond a week, it could affect the company's profit forecast for this year, analysts said. Qantas will brief media on the issue at 0500 GMT Monday.

A 4-foot-long tool was left inside the engine of an Airbus A380, a safety report found. The Qantas jet flew 294 hours of flights with the tool still inside, Australian authorities said.