PARIS, Sept 27 - A Singapore Airlines A380 was forced to turn round mid-flight and head back to Paris on Sunday after one of its four engines failed, the head of the airline's French operations said.

The doubledecker A380 took off from Paris at 12.30 p.m. with 444 passengers aboard and headed for Singapore, but had to turn round after 2 hours 45 minutes because of the engine problem, airline director Jerry Seah said.

The plane landed safely back in France at 5.45 p.m. (1545 GMT) and the passengers were sent to hotels as the airline tried to lay on an alternative flight for them.

Seah told Reuters he believed it was the first time the plane had suffered such a problem since it had started operating the Singapore-Paris route earlier this year.

The giant jet, built by Airbus , is designed to continue flying with only three engines, but came back to Paris as a safety precaution.

The engines on the Singapore A380s are built by Britain's Rolls Royce Group . (Reporting by Jean Baptiste Vey, writing by Crispian Balmer; editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

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SOLO, Indonesia (AFP) - – Armed Indonesian police stormed an Islamic militant hideout linked to Southeast Asia's leading terrorism suspect early Thursday in a raid that left four people dead, officials said.

Loud explosions and gunfire were heard as police raided the house at around 7:00 am (0000 GMT) after a nine-hour siege on the outskirts of Solo city, a stronghold in Central Java of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) radical network.

Indonesian police strongly suspect Malaysian terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was among four people killed in the raid.

Asked if one of the suspected militants killed in the raid was believed to be Noordin, the officer of the Special Detachment 88 squad, who declined to be named said: "Yes, it's 90 percent."
Noordin, a Malaysian who is the region's most-wanted man, leads a radical splinter faction of JI blamed for a string of deadly attacks.

Noordin, 41, leads a JI offshoot labeled Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago and is suspected of being behind July 17 suicide attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels.
The bombings, which killed seven people including six foreigners, were the first major attacks in Indonesia in nearly four years.

Police believe they narrowly missed Noordin in a dramatic televised raid in August on a safehouse in Temanggung, Central Java.
Noordin was initially reported dead at the end of the 17-hour siege but the body later turned out to be that of a florist working in the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotel complex who helped plot the attacks from the inside.

If officially confirmed by police, the death of Urwah, also known as Bagus Budi Pranoto, and Maruto would constitute the loss of key members of Noordin's network, analyst Noor Huda Ismail said.

"Maruto is the guy who knows how to make bombs," said Ismail, who heads the Institute for International Peacebuilding.

"Urwah is the guy who knows recruitment. He is the guy who introduced Noordin to Mohammed Rais," he said, referring to an operative in the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta.

A neighbour, Amal, said the raided house had been rented by the dead man Susilo and his wife Putri Munaroh, who was six months pregnant.

"Susilo was a nice guy, he moved here six months ago," he said.

Noordin allegedly also masterminded a 2003 attack on the Marriott that killed 12 people, as well as the Australian embassy bombing and 2005 attacks on tourist restaurants on the holiday island of Bali.

Jemaah Islamiyah's ultimate goal is to unite Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and the southern Philippines into a fundamentalist Islamic state.

Although Noordin's faction is estranged from JI's mainstream, which has rejected spectacular attacks, analysts say he has been able to fall back on a network of sympathetic schools and families while continuing to recruit.

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SINGAPORE: It was a race never before seen in Asia. In a bid to rev up publicity for the Formula 1 night race taking place later this month, Singapore’s Changi Airport organised a race between a jet plane and a sports car.

It was a race that had taken months to prepare and was made tougher by the fact that it was going to happen in one of the busiest airports in the world.

And as 500 guests, including 200 members of the public who’d won tickets in a shopping promotion, gathered under the scorching sun, it was time for the final showdown.

It was a race between a Jett8 Boeing 747 on the runway and a Porsche racing car on the taxiway.

But first, a false alarm as the car took off and the plane stayed put. Then finally, they were off racing 1.7 kilometres.

While many couldn’t figure out who won in the end, judges ruled it was the car by just 0.4 seconds with a jubilant Yuey Tan getting the trophy in the end.

Although in the heat of the race, both men didn’t know who was leading.

Mr Tan said: "Yes I checked twice. I was like 'Oh no’ when the plane was going, I was just waiting for the results. I could see the plane coming after me, so I wasn’t really sure who had won in the end."

Captain Peter Leo who had to take off also got the results later.

It’s not all fun and games being in the driver’s seat, which is quite literally the hot seat.
Car or plane, the crowd had a blast of a time although many continued rooting for their favourites, even after the race.

Said one spectator: "The car would have high pickup at the beginning of a race, then would not accelerate as fast as the plane. So, the plane for me was really winning.”

The airport has planned even more F1—related activities in the coming weeks. — CNA/vm

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