Throwback: The Logistical Challenges Posed By Air France’s 2017 Airbus A380 Diversion To Goose Bay

In 2017, an Air France Flight 066 Airbus A380 suffered an engine blowout as it crossed the Atlantic. As a quadjet, the Airbus A380 could still fly, but it needed to make an emergency landing at Canada’s Goose Bay military airport. This was the second of two uncontained engine failures suffered by the Airbus A380 powered by a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine ( the previous being Qantas Flight 32 in 2010). Retrieving the passengers and later ferrying out the strike A380 from such a remote location was a major logistical challenge.