Fear on board an A380 Air France plane flying from Paris to Los Angeles. The flight was forced to an emergency landing in Canada due to the explosion of one of its four engines. Among the passengers no wounded: "the pilots and the crew managed the incident to perfection" says Air France without going into details of the cause of the explosion.
The AF-66 flight was able to reach the Canadian coast of the Labrador and land, after another two hours of flight where the passengers were holding the suspended breath. The airplane is an Airbus A-380, a double-deck quad-rotor. It is the largest passenger plane in the world.
When the engine exploded the plane was flying to 11 thousands of feet above the ocean. Several passengers shouted, emergency lights switched on and oxygen masks went down. For twenty minutes the plane continued to vibrate, until the pilots failed to stabilize it. At that point the pilots could explain what was happening, and inform the passengers that an emergency landing had to take place, and that the flight would be hijacked on Goose Bay, in the Labrador. By the way, Goose Bay is a small airport, not one that can accommodate gigantic airplanes like airbus. In fact, once the plane landed, the passengers stayed on board for almost two hours before a high enough ladder was found to allow them to land.