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Qantas A380 returns to LAX as water leak floods fliers

Ben Mutzabaugh
USA TODAY
This file photo from Nov. 18, 2010, shows a Qantas Airbus A380 at the airbus plant in Hamburg, Germany.

A Qantas Airways superjumbo jet returned to Los Angeles International Airport about an hour after takeoff when a burst water pipe sent water down the aisles of the Airbus A380, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

A media outlet identified as 7News Yahoo!7 posted a picture of the jet's flooded aisles on Twitter. The flight took off from LAX around 12:14 a.m. ET Wednesday, turning around about an hour later. The jet landed at the airport about 2:40 a.m., according to FlightAware.com.

Qantas confirmed the incident on Qantas Flight 94, saying the Los Angeles-to-Melbourne flight "returned to L.A. about an hour after takeoff as there was a water leak on board the aircraft."

The Associated Press describes the scene, saying "water ran down stairs in the cabin and dripped onto passengers seated in the lower deck. Some people were moved to drier areas of the plane."

"All of a sudden, people started jumping up and yelling because all this water was coming basically in the middle of the aircraft," Ken Cross, a passenger on the plane, tells ABC 7 of Los Angeles. "They couldn't feed us. There was no entertainment, so you couldn't keep going for 15 hours like that."

In its statement, Qantas says "crew on board did everything they could to help customers, including moving them to unaffected areas and providing spare blankets so they could stay dry."

Qantas adds:

"We're also providing customers with hotel accommodation while the issue is being fixed by our engineers in Los Angeles. We apologise to customers for the inconvenience. There were no safety of flight concerns with the water leak, however the Captain decided to return to LA in the interests of passenger comfort. We are liaising with Airbus to understand what caused this fault."
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