Featured Maps: Grounded A380s (10 November 2010)

Qantas Airways grounded its entire fleet of six Airbus A380 aircraft after the uncontained engine failure aboard flight QF 32 six minutes after takeoff from Singapore. In addition to the aircraft which suffered the engine failure, which returned to Singapore, one Qantas A380 is grounded in Sydney, another in Frankfurt, and three aircraft are in Los Angeles.

Today, Singapore Airlines grounded three of its 11 A380s pending engine changes after finding signs of oil leaks. These aircraft are in London, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Today's featured map shows where these nine aircraft are parked.

LEGAL NOTE:
The airline logos used on the map displayed on this page are trademarks of Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines. They are used here (without permission) solely to describe geographic attributes of their respective airlines: nominative fair use, which courts have found to be non-infringing extensions of the statutory fair use permitted by 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(4). You may not use these logos in your own maps unless your maps conform to the nominative fair use exceptions to trademark ownership. The author of a map generated using the Great Circle Mapper is solely responsible for determining whether the use of logos meets the nominative fair use tests and the author is solely responsible for any trademark infringement.