The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered an inspection of some of the engines powering the Airbus A380s after one of them on an Air France superjumbo blew apart during a flight. The action was taken because the FAA determined there was an “unsafe condition” that “is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design,” according to the directive posted on its website. The FAA acted after the consortium that made the engine issued a service bulletin Thursday describing how to perform the visual inspections. The Air France plane’s jet turbines were made by Engine Alliance, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney. The directive is a first step and the agency may require additional actions after an investigation determines the cause of the engine failure, the FAA said. The authority routinely issues multiple legally binding orders for repairs on airliners each workday, but emergency directives such as this one on the A380 engines are rare and only occur when there is concern of an imminent safety risk. Engines with at least 3,500 flights must receive the inspections within two weeks, the FAA said. Power plants with less than 3,500 flights but more than 2,000 have to be inspected within five weeks.  A representative for Airbus SE said in an email that the plane maker is providing full technical assistance to the authorities and there’s no data available at this stage that would allow any specific recommendation. General Electric and Pratt didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment. Emergency Landing An A380 superjumbo operated by Air France was forced to make an emergency landing in eastern Canada after one of its four engines broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean. Airbus and France’s BEA air-accident investigation bureau dispatched a team of experts to Canada to investigate the aircraft. While engine malfunctions aren’t uncommon, so-called uncontained failures, when metal parts from within blast through a protective exterior sleeve, are. Such explosions are more serious because they can cause catastrophic damage to the wing holding fuel, the passenger areas or the hydraulics that control the plane. The Air France incident was the most severe on an A380 since Qantas Airways Ltd. in 2010 grounded all six of its superjumbos after an in-flight explosion on one of the plane’s engines. Those power plants were made by Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, whose Trent 900 model is the other engine of choice on the A380. The Qantas jet was out of service for 18 months for repairs and retesting.