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Old Nov 3, 2010, 9:59 pm
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Originally Posted by PresRDC
Yes. IFSDs are not uncommon occurances. If this was an uncontained failure (i.e. parts liberated and were not contained by the nacelle), that is a much rarer (and more serious) situation.
Initial reports assumed that it was a crash because red and white engine pieces had been found near a shopping mall in Batam (just across the strait from Singapore in Indonesia).

Let's hope everyone is safe.

Apparently it's circling while dumping fuel - http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...091283/1/.html
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