Qantas A380 Flew Two Long-Haul Sectors With a Maintenance Floodlight Left Inside Its Wing
A maintenance floodlight was accidentally left inside a Qantas Airbus A380 wing in Sydney and went undetected until after the aircraft had flown nearly 1,000 passengers to Dallas Fort Worth and back. Qantas has since revised tool-control procedures and introduced mandatory post-maintenance verification checks.