""The engine number two had exploded, and it created shrapnel like a cluster bomb where 400 pieces of shrapnel hit the aircraft," de Crespigny told Business Insider's Maggie Cai, who interviewed him for our video series, Authorized Account. De Crespigny, a former Royal Australian Air Force pilot, led a five-person crew that day. They faced 21 system failures, 120 checklists, 650 broken wires, 50% network failures, and shrapnel holes through the wing."
"Yet, every one of the 469 people on board survived, thanks in part to de Crespigny and the crew knowing when, and when not, to trust the computer systems that were failing around them. A later investigation found that the flight failed due to a manufacturing defect in a small stub pipe in the Airbus 380's Rolls-Royce engine. The threat that worries de Crespigny these days, however, is automation."
When Qantas Flight 32 left Singapore on November 4, 2010, clear skies masked imminent danger. Four minutes after takeoff two loud bangs occurred when engine number two exploded, sending about 400 pieces of shrapnel into the aircraft and triggering dozens of warning alarms. The five-person crew confronted 21 system failures, 120 checklists, 650 broken wires, 50% network failures, and shrapnel holes through the wing. All 469 people onboard survived because the crew identified failing computer systems and selectively trusted or overrode automation. Investigators found a manufacturing defect in a small stub pipe in the Rolls-Royce engine, and the captain warns that increasing automation raises pilot challenges.
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