Passengers recall hearing a "loud bang" but airline says there was no "explosion"; no casualty reported.

A Qantas plane made an emergency landing Friday due to a "contained engine failure" soon after taking off from Sydney Airport, sparking a grassfire on a nearby runway and causing several flights to be diverted. Eleven domestic flights were cancelled and four diverted to other airports, a Sydney Airport spokesperson said. lec/sco

A Qantas plane made an emergency landing Friday due to a "contained engine failure" soon after taking off from Sydney Airport, sparking a grassfire on a nearby runway and causing several flights to be diverted. Eleven domestic flights were cancelled and four diverted to other airports, a Sydney Airport spokesperson said. lec/sco

SYDNEY: A Qantas plane made an emergency landing Friday due to a “contained engine failure” soon after taking off from Sydney Airport, sparking a gras...

An ABC journalist on board the flight said a "sharp shudder" went through the aircraft after the explosion.

A passenger who was aboard the plane at the time said they heard a "loud bang" from inside the plane as it touched down on the tarmac at Sydney Airport, before the fire broke out

Qantas plane makes safe emergency landing in Sydney after engine failure, grass fire causes flight delays.

An engine failure on a passenger plane taking off from Sydney, Australia on Friday prompted the aircraft to circle before a safe emergency landing, the airline Qantas said.

Qantas flight QF520 had to make an emergency landing in Sydney after a suspected engine failure.The plane was a Boeing 737-800, per the flight tracking

The NSW fire service is responding to reports of a bush fire in the vicinity of Sir Joseph Banks Park near Sydney.

Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A Qantas airlines flight made an emergency landing at Sydney Airport on Friday afternoon after suffering engine failure shortly after takeoff, the company said.