Last Friday, July 1, the passengers of the Emirates Airbus A380 flight departing from Dubai to Brisbane (Australia) experienced a risk situation that they will not forget. Although the company assures that the hundred people who traveled on said flight were not in danger at any time; the truth is that the device remained in the air for 14 hours with a huge hole in its body.
Passengers and crew heard a loud bang about 45 minutes after taking off from Dubai. The pilots contacted Brisbane airport for emergency landing services, fearing they had blown one of the tires, according to The Aviation Herald.
The images of the perforation of the plane shared on social networks show the magnitude of the damage in the area of the plane's fuselage.
After the scare, the passengers commented on social networks how, during the flight, the crew knew that something serious could have happened, so they immediately contacted the flight deck. They have also shared that something reassured them: "The rapid change in the behavior of the crew after a few seconds reassured us and we knew that it was not a concern."
An Emirates spokesman stated that the plane suffered a "technical failure" when one of the 22 tires broke during the course of the flight. This break caused damage to a part of the aerodynamic material. In the statement, they emphasize that the breakage did not affect "the fuselage of the plane."
According to flight tracking services FlightAware and FlightRadar, the plane returned to Dubai on Sunday after being fixed and checked by engineers at the Australian airport.
The incident occurred just days after the A380 superjumbo jet model was given a reprieve just as German airline Lufthansa announced plans to rebuild the plane in the summer of 2023.
