“After circling for a short period of time, the aircraft landed safely at Sydney Airport,” Qantas’ chief pilot, Capt. Richard Tobiano said in a statement. The plane “was banking a lot” as it turned to prepare for its eventual descent back into ...

A Qantas Airways plane bound for Brisbane suffered an engine failure after takeoff on Friday and circled for a short period of time before returning safely to Sydney Airport, the Australian airline said.

The Qantas plane is about 19 years old, meaning this incident was likely a maintenance issue and not Boeing's fault. A contained failure means the engine did what it was designed to do during a failure by maintaining its parts within the engine's protective casing.