Trent Shortage Prompts Rolls To Plunder A380 Line

Rolls-Royce will pull Trent 900s from the Airbus A380 production facilities to replace engines that are being removed from the in-service fleet in the wake of the Qantas flight QF32 uncontained failure. The supply of spare Trent 900s is limited, and Airbus says that any production line engine swaps...

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