QF A380 Nancy-Bird Walton arrives home

[cowpatz]

Qantas A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, completing its QF32 flight from Singapore 16 months and $139 million in repairs later after its explosive uncontained engine failure on November 4 2010.

As QF32 VH-OQA touched down on Sydney’s Runway 16 Right at about 9.20am on Sunday morning, arriving on time despite fog at the airport earlier in the morning causing extensive flight delays. Taxiing into the international terminal, Airservices Australia ARFF fire trucks provided VH-OQA with a water canon salute to mark its return to Sydney.

Airservices' ARFF service welcomes home Nancy-Bird Walton. (Paul Sadler/Airservices Australia)

The Nancy-Bird Walton will return to airline service on April 28 when it operates QF127 from Sydney to Hong Kong.

Australian Aviation Magazine Monday 23 April

[Ian Warren]

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Qantas A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, completing its QF32 flight from Singapore 16 months and $139 million in repairs later after its explosive uncontained engine failure on November 4 2010.

WOWS.. Hells bells that is some serious damage and repair cost , very surprised they simply just did'nt scrap it .

[Charl]

...about 1/3 the price of a new one, and one assumes good as new.
RR picked up A$95m of the bill, wonder what Qantas total costs were, remember they grounded the whole fleet for a time.
Lucky they were able to pick up the fleet's wing cracks while mending this one!

[cowpatz]

The problem with scrapping the A380 is that it would have been listed as a hull loss and this has a significant affect on insurance costs for operators of that aircraft type.