SQ268 ADL-SIN diverts to Bali

[Robert S]

Hi all,

Stumbled across this by accident, but it looks like SQ268 divered to DPS yesterday (Monday)

SQ and Changi websites have it as being via Bali.

http://twitter.com/bigjsl described it with this: "Find myself in Denpasar Bali after emergency landing. Bang, bad burnt metal smell, running hosties. #SingAir #Airbus #fail"

[Matt R]

Lucky it wasn't QF81, would have been front page news everywhere.

[Paul McFarlane]

It's not much, but this is from www.avherald.com

A Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300, registration 9V-STL performing flight SQ-268 from Adelaide,SA (Australia) to Singapore (Singapore), was enroute near Bali/Denpasar (Indonesia) when the crew needed to shut down the left hand engine (Trent 772) and diverted to Denpasar for a safe landing.

Passengers reported, that the engine emitted a huge bang.

[J Brown]

For what its worth, 9V-STL was only delivered on the 30th April (arr SIN 1/5)

[Robert Zweck]

Nothing of the usual media frenzy here in Adelaide, obviously the aircraft did not have a kangaroo on the tail.

[Junhao K]

It seems to be the second engine failure of Trent 700 series recently as far as i know. Hope it is not a problem of RR.