A 4-foot-long tool was left inside the engine of an Airbus A380, a safety report found.The Qantas jet flew 294 hours of flights with the tool still inside, Australian authorities said.The investigation said that an engineer left the tool there as they thought it would be needed later.

The Qantas Airbus A380 operated 34 cycles and flew for more than 290 hours before the missing tool was removed from the engine.

A Qantas Airbus A380 completed nearly 300 flight hours with a technician’s tool lodged in an engine, an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report says. The report has made recommendations for all Australian airlines to avoid other potentially dangerous instances.

Emails and tool-tracking software weren't heeded, but nothing scary happened - except to the nylon tool An Airbus A380 operated by Australian airline Qantas clocked over 290 hours of flight time despite a tool having been left inside one of its engines,