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Rolls-Royce takes £56m Qantas engine blast charge

     Damaged engine of Qantas A380 Qantas grounded its fleet of A380s for intensive safety checks after the explosion on 4 November
    Manufacturing giant Rolls-Royce has said the mid-air failure of one of its Trent 900 engines on a Qantas superjumbo had led to costs of £56m.
    The explosion in the engine forced an emergency landing of the A380 in November last year.
    The one-off cost contributed to annual pre-tax profits dropping 76% to £702m in 2010 from £2.96bn.
    Foreign exchange costs and interest rate and fuel hedging contracts also contributed to the profit fall.
    But the company said that underlying pre-tax profits - which strip out one-off costs - were up by 4% to £955m in 2010 and were a better indication of its performance.
    Investors will be scrutinising Rolls-Royce's financial figures to try to find out how the recent engine failure that led to the grounding of six Qantas Airbus A380 aircraft affected the company.
    The costs directly linked to the event have been accounted for.
    But as the areospace giant's earnings are largely made up of servicing income from the thousands of Rolls-Royce engines already in use, these costs do not fully reflect the impact.
    The long-term effects of the engine failure, for instance a potential fall in new orders over the months and years ahead, cannot be measured at this stage.
    Consequently, the final impact on the company's bottom line is not yet known.
    Rolls said a "rapid and effective response" from all involved in the Qantas incident had helped it to identify the fault and return the Trent 900 engine to normal service within weeks.
    The group had paid out for most of the service and support costs and settlements to affected customers, but may face further "modest" costs, on top of the £56m Rolls-Royce added.
    "This was the first time an event of this nature had occurred on a large civil Rolls-Royce engine since 1994," it added.
    Analysts say that it is difficult to quantify the potential long-term impact of the incident, which could lead plane manufacturers to turn to alternative engine makers such as GE.
    Qantas grounded its six A380s for intensive safety checks after the explosion on 4 November punched a hole in the wing of a Qantas flight from Singapore to Australia.
    Qantas resumed limited A380 flights to London in late November but its trans-Pacific flights were suspended for longer as the journey requires greater engine thrust.

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