China engine order eases Rolls-Royce woes

British engine maker Rolls-Royce Plc won a $1.8 billion order from Air China, offering some respite to the company which had been hit by safety fears over another of its engines.


The world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines said on Monday it had received an order from Air China to provide Trent XWB engines for 10 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft and Trent 700 engines for 10 Airbus A330 planes.


Those are different engines to the Trent 900, one of which failed on a Qantas Airbus A380 flight this month, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing.


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