00:00Turbine blades tore and bent as the passenger jet accelerated down the runway.
00:07If any of them had detached that would cause them to pass through the rest of the engine
00:13and cause the type of damage that we've seen.
00:17The right engine spat out hot blades, fragments are believed to have sparked a grass fire.
00:22Something has gone wrong in order for them to then separate and to come out the tail
00:27pipe so they could be anywhere up to sort of 800 degrees.
00:30The aircraft lost half its thrust after hitting a critical speed called V1, meaning it no
00:35longer had enough runway left to stop.
00:38You're committed to continue the take off.
00:40In the event of losing an engine it is still safe to take off and to climb and to return.
00:46And that's what the pilots did.
00:47The crew has done a magnificent job.
00:50The 737-800 is almost 20 years old.
00:54It's not necessarily an old aircraft by world standards, particularly if it's been well
01:00maintained.
01:01The maintenance records will now be scrutinised by investigators from the Australian Transport
01:05Safety Bureau.
01:06Qantas says recent industrial action by engineers has had no effect on maintenance operations.
01:13The 737-800 is a workhorse for Qantas, which has 75 of the aircraft, more than any other
01:19type.
01:20The airline plans to gradually replace the fleet over the next decade.
01:24We certainly don't expect that we're going to uncover any systemic failures or systemic
01:29weakness in the aircraft.
01:31The Bureau expects to deliver a preliminary report in the next two months.
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